Sometimes it can feel like we are constantly living in the tension of how to truly live as a new creation. Mike explains that when we allow God to wreck our old identity as sinners, Holy Spirit can empower us to live a life as a joyful saint.

Hinderances like religion and sometimes even the Bible, can harm us and become a roadblock to our relationship with Jesus. But there's good news, Holy Spirit is our helper. This journey of transformation takes time and trust. Our next step is to embrace the Spirit, who lives inside you, to overcome these hinderances. We want to be wrecked for God and wrecked for good.

As we enter our new series ‘Wrecked For God’ inspired by Dianne Leman’s book, she unpacks what prompted her to write this book. She shares that as she was seeking the secret to the Christian life, she found that we not only have a relationship with God, but He is alive in us. We can’t reach transformation by self-effort and trying harder - it takes time and trust and a leap of faith. As we move forward in faith, we can be assured of this firm foundation.

Julie Yoder

We wrapped up our series on Revelation with a Q&A with Dianne Leman, Clay Harrington, Putty Putman, and Daniel Goulet answering your questions about the spiritual realm and spiritual beings, how to interpret Revelation, how to allow Revelation to influence how we approach tension-filled issues like racism in America.

So often we can be consumed with the problem, pain and panic of our lives that we can slip into the me-centered mindset where God is calling us back to a Him-centered worship. In Revelation, John was looking for a strong lion, but what he saw was a slaughtered lamb. As Christians we can often get confused and want God to make a difference like a roaring lion. Clay explains that just like Jesus we can live bold like a lion but to have the victories Jesus did, need to couple it with the humility of a lamb. When we take our eyes off of ourselves and focus on the Heavenly Father, we can begin to live out that true humility that God has call us to live in.

We often find ourselves stuck in the law of the Old Testament. We have failed to fully comprehend the New Covenant. We forget that grace is free but instead settle for just “getting by”. We end up living with some law and some grace, leaving us to lead a lukewarm life. Ultimately, grace is the way to enjoy Jesus to the fullest.

We can find ourselves seeking significance from what we do and fall into the mentality of doing things out of works and not in the knowledge that we are surrounded by God’s grace. In these situations our motives matter. Why do we do what we do and where is that coming from? We can lose touch of the fact that Jesus knows us in way that we can’t even comprehend. Jesus doesn’t just have the answer, He is the answer.

Putty unpacks how the letters to the seven churches in Revelation can reflect our relationship with God. Putty explains that God gently shows us areas in our lives that we are in bondage, but He also shows us that we are not alone in the fight. God has set us free and given us His authority. He will bring us back to Himself and bring us from bondage back into the authority He has given us.

When looking more closely at the book of Revelation, we can see that there is a lot to gleam from its pages. It can show us a fuller picture of Jesus and the freedom He can bring, specifically when we encounter problems in our day to day lives. While looking through the letters written to the seven churches in Asia, we catch onto a pattern that we can live by. Jesus shows us a picture of who He is, lovingly shows us the problem of what we are dealing with, and then shares the solution and how to partner with Him to make it happen.