Sunday Morning Live Services

What were we before grace found us? The answer is more sobering than most of us care to admit. Drawing from Romans 5:6-11 and Psalm 40, this message takes us on a journey through the three stark realities of our condition apart from God: we were without strength, we were sinners, and we were enemies of God. Not passive bystanders caught in sin's current, but willful participants, actively turned away from the light. Romans 3:23 reminds us that every one of us fell short of God's glory, and no amount of moral effort or personal goodness could bridge that gap. The image is striking -- like trying to leap from one continent to another. We all fall short, no matter how far we jump. And yet, into that hopeless condition, God responded not with judgment but with love, justification, salvation from wrath, and reconciliation. Understanding where we started makes what God has done for us all the more breathtaking. If you want to rediscover the wonder of your salvation, this message calls us back to that foundational moment when grace reached down into the miry clay and pulled us out.