Episode 117: We'll Be The Same, But Different (New Creation, Part 3)

The old Fleetwood Mac puts it honestly, "I've been afraid of changing, 'cause I built my life around you." We tend to hear talk about change and get scared--we are used to the familiar, and it is always tempting to picture "the good old days" in some hazy distant past as the times when things used to be "great." But the writers of the New Testament turn our attention, not backward to some imagined past, but forward to a promised future, and they insist it will mean change, but not change we are meant to be afraid of.  The hope of resurrection is like that--somehow, the Scriptures promise us, we will be the same, and God holds onto the you-ness of you, and the me-ness of me; and yet, we will be changed, so that we are not subject to the power of death.  In today's episode of Crazy Faith Talk, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve explore a central passage in the New Testament from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians to explore this idea of resurrection, change, continuity, and hope, as they continue their series this Eastertide on new creation.