Everybody is worth dying for...what does this mean?

The long awaited rain brought life back into our withered lawns today just as Jesus quenches our thirsty souls as we gathered together in His name. I am beginning to sense that we have grown beyond the gates of our "nicely painted pickett fences" and are stepping into a deeper understanding of who we are.

We began our evening sharing our week's worth of victories and set backs and all the in -betweens before we gathered to worship our King. The words in the music of 'Trading our Sorrows" seemed to melt away the world and all it's turmoil and soften our hearts in preperation of the evening studies.

We focused on the first core value of our church which is Everybody is worth dying for. We went into the Bible verse which supports this in John 3:16 which says God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who so ever believes in Him shall not parish but have ever lasting life.
What does this mean for us? We discussed this deeper and realized that Jesus' answer was clearly "yes"! What does that say for us and how we live our lives? What sort of value does our lives have to the eyes of Christ who knows what sins our hearts carry! It holds our lives accountable to eachother and to Christ who choose to lay down his life so that we could have life as God intended it! In Matthew 10:38-39 it says And who ever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.