New City Church | Teachings

What is it that you boast in? We all boast about something, looking to find our worth and approval. But the Gospel invites us to embrace the gift of grace. That we are not able to save ourselves, but rather we are saved by faith. Faith is the only way to receive the righteousness of God.

We are in need of an internal transformation, not merely an external modification. We are all in need of saving from our sins. The gospel is not good news about how God makes bad people good, but rather good news about how God makes dead people alive.

In Romans 8, Paul proclaims that "nothing can separate us from the love of God." Yet, we often feel like the world is trying to separate us from God. See, all of us are under a power, the power of sin. We need the power of the gospel to save us from the power of sin. We need the power of the Holy Spirit-empowered message of grace.

As we begin our journey through Romans and through Lent, we start by remembering the truth that we are mortal. That from dust we came, and to dust, we shall return. But while that is true, we also remember that while we are more sinful than we ever dared believe, we are more loved and rescued by Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.