Good News, Bad News and Really Good News

For those of us Gentiles in the Church, we are reminded that we were brought into the Church by Christ because the Jews were disobedient to God. That’s good news for us. However, Saint Paul reminds us that we are strangers, adopted into the Church, and if God removed the Jews who were native to the Church, He will not hesitate to remove us if we are disobedient and selfish with the Church. Then there is the really good news! There is still time for us. We are still able to change and live obedient lives, producing fruit for God. When produce the fruit of the Spirit, “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control,” (Galatians 5.22-23) God will grow the Church into a beacon of hope and light.