Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, September 17, 2023

His Performance, Your Acceptance Today, Pastor Michael is talking about how “acceptance must be earned,” an idea that we pick up at a young age, teaching us that we must perform at a certain level.  Living in a world where our acceptance is based on our performance, most folks believe God must love us similarly: that we must meet the standards and the requirements. God’s acceptance of us cannot be based on our performance!  The core of the message today is that acceptance rests on His performance, not yours. Michael dives into the book of Mark, where parents brought their children for a blessing from Jesus, and the disciples stopped them.  Jesus was indignant and told the disciples to let the children come to Him and told the disciples that whoever didn’t receive the kingdom of God like a little child would never enter it.   (CSB Notes) 10:15 Jesus’s second saying relates to how a person welcomes and enters the kingdom of God. A little child accepts what is given as a gift without asserting his rights or claims (cp. Mt 18:3). To enter God’s kingdom, a person must accept it as a gracious gift. Verses can be found in Mark 10: 13-16. Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.