The Gateway Church

Rule of Life

Guest Speaker: Tory Farina

Guest Speaker: Tory Farina

What Jesus Christ demands will seem to your natural intuition to be the death of joy, freedom, options, and potential, and yet actually it’s the birth of your real joy and freedom and options and potential.

What Jesus Christ demands will seem to your natural intuition to be the death of joy, freedom, options, and potential, and yet actually it’s the birth of your real joy and freedom and options and potential.

What if the judgment for turning from God is nothing other than turning from God? Turning away is itself the disaster that bears horrid and painful results. What if wrath is not as the active vengeance of an angry God, but the process of perishing under the curse and decay of sin? And what if God’s response to our turning away is not to turn away also, but to launch the rescue mission that will save us from ourselves?

What if the judgment for turning from God is nothing other than turning from God? Turning away is itself the disaster that bears horrid and painful results. What if wrath is not as the active vengeance of an angry God, but the process of perishing under the curse and decay of sin? And what if God’s response to our turning away is not to turn away also, but to launch the rescue mission that will save us from ourselves?

The death of Jesus on the cross is the center of all Christian life and theology. If we want to know who God is, who we are, and the way to ultimate truth and life - the best thing we can do is look at Jesus upon the cross. The cross is not just a religious symbol; it is an utterly new way to live.

The death of Jesus on the cross is the center of all Christian life and theology. If we want to know who God is, who we are, and the way to ultimate truth and life - the best thing we can do is look at Jesus upon the cross. The cross is not just a religious symbol; it is an utterly new way to live.

The death of Jesus on the cross is the center of all Christian life and theology. If we want to know who God is, who we are, and the way to ultimate truth and life - the best thing we can do is look at Jesus upon the cross. The cross is not just a religious symbol; it is an utterly new way to live.