Pastor’s Thoughts: Foolishness…

March 31st, 2008 admin Posted in Pastor's Thoughts |

In the Easter message, I shared with you that the doors, the choices you face in your life, the past you carry with you; you need to see in light of the empty tomb. Even death, death of a family, a marriage, a spouse, or even your death; when you find you only have days to live. Jesus has conquered our death, disappointment, despair, so that Hope can reign in our lives.

In our new series we see that this reality comes into conflict within the world we live. We live in a world that says, “yeah right” to Christ. It is a world that considers the cross foolish.

To follow, to trust in God is to be counter cultural. It is to swim upstream, to be wild and crazy in the world’s eyes.
Currently, I am in the midst of a long term conversation with 4-5 individuals. I have knocked down the obstacles that they have had toward seeing Jesus as Lord, only for them to dig up or create another question. The problem is that they refuse to take themselves out of the “lord” position in their lives. For one to truly trust in Jesus as Lord, they have to take a leap of faith, saying they are not “lord”, and Jesus is Lord.

My prayer is that you ask the questions, seek diligently through His Word, but then, in the light of the empty tomb, you trust in what the world would claim as foolishness - the cross and its payment on your behalf!

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
I Cor. 1:18 (NIV)

Daniel L. Hauser
Campus Pastor