When you become a Christian, you receive a new family identity that transcends your earthly genealogy. Through salvation, God legally adopts you into His family, giving you a perfect Father and an eternal inheritance. This adoption means you have complete access to God and are no longer defined by your earthly family's dysfunction or achievements. As God's child, you must stop living with hatred toward your earthly family and abandon the slave mentality of constantly trying to earn God's love. Instead, embrace your identity as chosen, loved, and secure in Christ, focusing on becoming like Jesus rather than avoiding your parents' patterns.
SAVED! That’s the new sermon series that launches this weekend at GCC. We’re going to dig into God’s Word and learn about the miraculous gift of salvation that we received when we confess Jesus as Lord of our lives. Think of these sermons as a “deep down in the heart” look at how Jesus forgives our sin and changes our lives. We begin this weekend as we answer the question “How do you become a Christian” with a study of Romans 10:8-17. It’s a bit of a backward journey to the powerful truth that “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
