Most of us grew up taking Communion, but we were just going through the motions, never stopping to think about the meaning. So, what is Communion? Why do we celebrate it? And how should we take it?
If you want a passage of Scripture that clashes with culture and is difficult to understand, this is it! Though it deals with women wearing head coverings, what’s really at stake is the beauty of God’s design in creating us male and female and how we live that out in the church and in the home.
God is glorious—he is bigger, better, and more satisfying than anything else the world has to offer, and he has called us out of death and into his kingdom. As Christians, we live in a way that either displays this glory and commends God’s goodness to others, or we obscure this glory, giving others the impression that God is not worth their attention.
Life is short. Eternity is forever. So let’s do whatever possible to win more and more people to Jesus. Let’s be like Paul who surrendered it all for the sake of the gospel!
What do we do with the "gray areas" of life? How do we navigate issues like media, alcohol and politics? And how can we lovingly interact with those who have different convictions than we do? Gray areas can be complicated, but they don’t have to be divisive. Rather, they should lead us to love one another as Christ first loved us.