Roger Thrower

What’s your agenda? Many have used God for their agenda, but is your agenda God’s agenda? God’s agenda is the forgiveness of sins through granting the gift of repentance. Through both the receiving and giving of forgiveness we can fulfill God’s agenda and:

1. Be reconciled to God.
*For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
* The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

2. Become the true you in Christ.
* As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 2:4-5
*Ephesians 4:17-32

3. Be an outpost of heaven on earth.
* The church’s gift to the world is that we live right now is such a way that we embody the coming kingdom. We bear witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as we allow eternity to determine how we live every day.
* But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil. 3:20