Podcast: 2025-12-21: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Advent 4 – Love: God’s Salvation in Christ is Cosmic and It Looks Like Love

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2025-12-21: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Advent 4 – Love: God’s Salvation in Christ is Cosmic and It Looks Like Love

Good Morning and an early Merry Christmas greeting!  God demonstrates his love for the world by sending his (willing) Son to bring salvation to humanity – more than that, to the ends of the earth!  It began with God’s Son taking on humanity (fully human and fully God), becoming incarnate in the flesh.  Why would God do this, become this?  Because God loves what he has made (John 3:16).  Why incarnation?  It was necessary.  Only God’s power could bear the weight of sin and God’s wrath.  Only a human can pay for human sin.  Incarnation gives us both, and both are necessary for our salvation.

God’s love incarnate in Jesus opens the door for our salvation.  Because of Jesus, and only Jesus.  The salvation of God in Jesus Christ goes beyond personal, it’s COSMIC.

During Advent 2025, we have marveled at God’s COSMIC salvation in Jesus, for it looks like (is like) hope, peace, joy, and love on earth.  Sunday, we focus on God’s love in and through Jesus.  Join us Sunday for our pre-Christmas celebration with a telling of God’s story (a pageant/skit), communion, and a fellowship meal.

When it comes to God’s salvation in Jesus, what does it look like to embody God’s love and respond to it?  Think practical and tangible.  Think every day living.  Think about relationships.  Salvation gets authentically real really fast.

See you Sunday,
Pastor Mark