Bluewater Bay Campus eLetter
From Our Campus Pastor
One of the first passages of scripture that came alive for me as a new believer was 2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old is gone, the new is here!
I think this passage speaks beautifully to what we experience as followers of Jesus from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. When you accept Christ, you are leaving your old life and stepping into the new. Part of that process is what some people refer to as liminal space, put, like a threshold. We have stepped through a doorway, into a new experience in which we see life through a very different lens. But if you are like me, you remember the uncertainty of stepping from one experience into another. That uncertainty is what might be referred to as liminal space, where change happens in life, in between the old and the new.
And it is in that liminal space that the followers of Jesus found themselves when Jesus was crucified on what we celebrate as Good Friday. It was a period of uncertainty in which there was concern about what to do next. Our king had come to save us, and now He was crucified and buried. Most people realized He wasn’t the king they thought He would be.
But then, He rose from the dead! The crucified had become the Resurrected! This King, the True King, had come to usher in a Kingdom that is not of this world. Uncertainty turns into certainty. Hopelessness turns to hopefulness. Fear turns into faith. Sin is conquered, and death is no more! Our King Jesus offers and invites us into the Kingdom life.
That liminal space of uncertainty leads us into a place of trust, and placing our faith in the One whom we hold fast to as we become a new creation, the old has gone, and the new has come!
Come celebrate King Jesus this Easter Sunday as we give Him thanks!
Worship Service at Bluewater Bay Campus, April 20:
- 8:00 a.m. (BREAKFAST provided before service; no kids programming)
- 9:30 a.m. (Kids programming for 4th grade and younger)
- 11:00 a.m. (Kids programming for 4th grade and younger)
*We encourage you to consider the 8:00 a.m. service for guaranteed seating. (And breakfast!)
Crosspoint Good Friday Worship Service at the Niceville Campus
- Friday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. (Niceville Campus, Community Life Center)
See you on Sunday!
-Billy
Billy Russell, Campus Pastor
