What Good is Faith in Christ? (Romans 5:1-5)

"He is Risen!" 

"He is Risen Indeed!" 

This call and response has marked Easter worship for as long as I can remember, and rightly so. It's a declaration of the wonder of the resurrection. 

This week at Grace, we're going to talk about the implications of that resurrection for us today. We're going to stay in our Romans series, looking at Romans 5:1-5. While it doesn't include the resurrection story explicitly, it does explain the resurrection's implications for us today - how faith in the resurrection of Jesus brings peace with God, establishes our standing before God, and causes us to reconsider the meaning of suffering. 

Looking forward to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus with you this Sunday!

In Christ, 
Pastor Bob

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Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

- Romans 5:1-5