Yesterday we celebrated Independence Day at BPC with special speaker Jim Martin. Jim talked about The Laws of Nature and the Laws of Nature's God. “That phrase was not something Thomas Jefferson thought up, but it was a common phrase that had been used for years. Could we govern through these two sets of laws?”The starting line of the Declaration of Independence…
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
And the rest they say is history! The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer a part of the British Empire. Every year we celebrate that independence & our Freedom.
Every week @ BPC we celebrate freedom through Christ & on the 1st Sunday of every month we serve communion. Like our July 4th celebrations cause us to remember & rejoice Jesus instituted communion so we could remember Him (Jesus) & Rejoice by proclaiming freedom through His sacrifice. No longer are we chained to the past, with Christ now governing our lives we live in the ultimate freedom. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!
Living as a Christ follower & a U.S. Citizen…what a great combination!
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