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"Trust, Confess, Receive"
from Alex Ehly

The Good News, which is the gospel, proclaims that through Jesus Christ sin-bound and alienated mankind may receive salvation and eternal life. God sent His Son to live a sinless life, die on the cross as atonement for our transgressions, and rise again to conquer death out of love and mercy. We are made right with God through trusting in Jesus, confessing our rebellion against Him, and receiving His forgiveness. We experience God’s grace through the gospel, receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and are given the ability to live transformed lives that show others His love and hope.

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More than a decade ago I brought Alex on my staff to lead ministry with middle and high school students. A few years later the Lord called him to Christ Community Church in Omaha, one of the flagship churches in the city. He is now the director of online ministry and a teaching minister there. He has done some awesome work leading CCC's podcast, unCOMFORTABLE:Conversations About Culture & Christianity.

I appreciate the boldness of the first sentence in Alex's OMG. We are "sin-bound and alienated" but through Jesus we receive "salvation and eternal life." I do not edit the OMGs, but I do give them their titles, and I took the title from Alex's sentence that begins, "We are made right with God through . . . ."

Because we are sin-bound and alienated, we need to be made right, and we cannot do it for ourselves. The good news also includes "transformed lives" in the Holy Spirit and being a witness for Jesus, to "show others his love and hope." I see all of this in Alex!

Next post: Tuesday, September 19, "Following Him Back to the Garden" from Alice Fowler

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