"Unashamed"...Ready for the good news?

Wow...Wednesday's message was hard, right? Just in case you missed it:

God is not mad at you. He's not some bully ready to pounce on you at every wrong turn and every single fall. God loves you...it's how it was from the beginning and its still that way TODAY. God is pursuing you, He loves you...and yet there are some of us who are content with acting like it's okay to be ashamed of God. You know what I mean...there's a hard teaching, a hard verse, an uncomfortable truth about God or Christ in the Bible, and we are either ashamed to accept and live it out in the real world, or we unashamedly ignore it all together and pretend it doesn't exist. Can you believe it?! Ashamed...of the truth! So...which one is it? And the question isn't even if you accept it or not...right now I just want you to own up to it: "do you want God's message, do you want to follow God, no matter what?"

That's the question that led us to talk about the bigger question: "Do you want God, do you want Christ, is He in you?" We talked about in Isaiah 65 where God is speaking about those he delivered and how He unashamedly calls to those who don't ask for Him, who mock and provoke Him to His face. He reveals Himself to us...yet we rebel...and then have the audacity to call ourselves "good" and think its perfectly fine to live like Jesus is our dirty little secret. See, apart from Christ we are not good...far, far from it. But there's more to the story...there's repentance, there's forgiveness, there's life.

This week is the good news... this week we're getting loud with it...