Tonight our worship team met for a few minutes before rehearsal to talk about what the Lord is teaching us as we study the scriptures. A few of us are working through the LifeJournal Bible in a year plan, so we’re reading the same passages. I really enjoy our times of talk, even as much as I do worshiping with the team as we rehearse.
As we talked Laura Cornish brought up all the whack-jobs that we’ve encountered as we’ve read through the first 20 or so chapters of Genesis. Every family is dysfunctional. There are liars and cheats, manipulators and cowards. From Adam and Eve to Noah and his sons to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob–it’s been one lone string of lies, sexual sin, and selfish behavior that results in (or comes from) brokenness. Laura asked something like, “Why couldn’t one person get it right?”
I guess it’s because we’re all broken inside, stained and corrupted by sin. Thank God for Jesus, who took our sin and offers us freedom! In the truck on the way home from a tutoring session, Josie asked me what freedom means, and I got to re-tell her about the sacrifice of Jesus. Even for those of us who know Jesus, sometimes those chains of our sinful nature seem awfully difficult to escape.
We shared a new song last week at midtown that has been ringing in my heart ever since. We’re going to do it again this week. Give it a listen…
There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain. I’m still learning about the chains in my life that need to be broken. What are the chains in your life?
2 Comments
Max · January 17, 2012 at 12:19 pm
My roommate and I heard this song at Calvary this weekend and loved it! Hope to hear it again. It’s not often that we get to sing some Jesus Culture in Church.
stacy · January 17, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I loves me some Jesus Culture!