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As we move through Holy Week or Passion Week, it’s worthwhile to remember why Jesus died. The Apostle Peter was clear:

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. (1 Peter 2.24, ESV)

He died to take away our sins IN ORDER THAT we might die to sin and live to righteousness. He didn’t die just so we would have a free ticket to heaven but that we might live a certain way on earth.

Our pastor said Sunday, “Jesus didn’t die so that we could go to church. He died so that we might be the church!”

Here’s one picture of that that might look like. We might look at more in a subsequent blog.

In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences. (Ephesians 4.1 – 3, MSG)