Everything | bethany

It's so easy to forget what the Christian faith is all about. We struggle so much, work so hard, and fail so often that we frequently sense something in the equation of life must be missing. Rather than to turning to Jesus, we often turn elsewhere. Trouble arises when we think of the gospel as merely an entry ticket to heaven, the thing that gets us in, while the thing that keeps us in (we assume) is our own effort and performance.

The real issue is not that we blatantly seek to replace Jesus with something else, we simply add something else to him: Jesus plus self-affirmation, personal approval, social justice, success, power, etc. Ultimately, Jesus is the whole of the equation: Jesus + Nothing = Everything.