Have you ever wondered why we as people struggle to have the mind of Christ? Why there are over 350,000 denominations in the Christian Church? Why division is more prevelant than unity? Identifying the problem is easy, for it is obvious, but what is the solution? Is it a new church model? Is it another person planting another church? Is it a different person leading worship? Is it switching churches? Is it stopping going to church all together? People have tried all of these things, none of them have worked.

What if the solution is simpler than we even recognize or realize? What if the issue is not some corporate situation, which is actually just micro people joining together to become a corporate expression, what if the issue is faith? The very word that got us saved, keeps us alive, gives us hope, renders to us peace and sets us free. Faith, not in what some person says, faith in what the word of God says.

Hebrews 4:2 in the Passion Translation says, “We have heard the good news of deliverance just as they did, yet they didn’t join their faith with the Word. Instead, what they heard didn’t affect them deeply, for they doubted.”

This verse is packed with power, precision, and truth. The gospel is good news, but only if we believe what we hear. If you don’t hear the good news, or if we do not let the good news affect us deeply, we will create some other news that is more suited to what we want to believe, rather than what the Bible says. The solution to our problem is we don’t believe the good news, we have believed other news.

This is not a new issue, this is the same old issue they dealt with in the wilderness; when the 10 spies brought back a bad report; and why people could not agree on the answer to the question Jesus asked, “Who do the people say I am?” Friends, the gospel has been and always will be good news about a good God, and a faithful Messiah. Nothing has changed. Will you believe the good news? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org