Acts 24:15 I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
This is Paul speaking before one of his judges during his long journey of trials and appeals all the way to Rome. He is laying claim to his basic beliefs - and then he goes on to show how those beliefs should not be any kind of threat to Rome. But here he lays out the basic faith of Christians: I have a hope that there will be a resurrection.
The church says and does lots of things. But our central message is really about resurrection. Our central message is that life isn't over when the doctors say it is. Our central message is that there is more to this world than what we can see and experience right now. There is more. That is our hope. That is our faith. That is our confidence.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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