20250309 Luke 6:17-26 What is the good life?
What is the good life? How we answer this question determines every choice we make. Our values determine our decisions. For Christians, God must define what is “good” and what is “the good life.” Christians must learn to value what God values. With time, as we devote ourselves to God, his idea of a good life will become our idea of a good life. The decisions we make as we mature in Christ will more and more instinctively, be the will of God. Erle Frederick Rounds believed that the good life was to take the love of Christ to unreached areas of the world. He went to the rugged mountains of the Philippines. In 1941, hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded Manila. With these events, Rounds and his family could not leave the Philippines. He continued to bear witness to the good news of the forgiveness of sins in Christ. The Japanese started executing Christian missionaries. Rounds was losing many friends. In one of his last letters, he wrote to missionaries capture...