ON THIS DAY IN ... do you ever google what happened in history on a certain day? Like maybe what happened on your birthday over the years?
The Christian faith is based on something that happened in history and continues to happen. The "what happened" is the resurrection of Jesus. The "still happening" is what Jesus predicted ... that He would start a gathering, a movement . . . a people - what we call church. And that church would spread all over the earth and outlast the Roman Empire. It would change the world.
His prediction must have sounded whacked to His followers ... but here we are, two thousand years later, and the Roman Empire exists only in history books, while Jesus’ gathering is still going strong. The church is the hope of the world because the church is the people inhabited by which God is bringing the solution to mankind’s greatest problems: sin, sorrow, and death.
