Abounding Grace: Hoping and Boasting

Sunday we finish our series, Abounding Grace, by considering our profession of faith to the world. The author urges his readers to follow Christ, outside the city gates, suffering his reproach with him. The challenge for believers is to follow Christ no matter what the world or the religious community thinks of our faith. Our hope rests in the abounding goodness of God to those who believe in Jesus and the kingdom he provides and reigns over. We’ll track this theme through the book of Hebrews and see how it liberates the believer to live in confidence, contentment, and confession.

 Our experience of God’s goodness and our confidence in his finished work through Christ becomes our “boast” to the world. The author says, “we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope,” Hebrews 3:6. When was the last time you “boasted in hope?” When was the last time you exhorted someone to remember the work of Christ and his coming kingdom? When was the last time you professed your faith and boasted in God’s grace to a non-believer?

Are we silent because we’ve lost hope? Maybe we’ve forgotten the promises of God? The world needs to hear our boasting in hope. Only our experience of God’s goodness can produce this expression of hope. Join us Sunday.