As You Go

Rev. Matt Tuggle | Click/tap here to view the Sermon Reflection Guide. What next? Fortunately, we are not the first generation to ask that question. In fact, the first generation wanted to know the same thing. What now? How do we live a life of faith and love after the Resurrection? In this sermon, we will be looking at how we can live out our real faith in our real lives in very real ways. When we contemplate “what next,” we think about what is to come of our lives, who or what we will influence, what legacy we are going to leave behind, or what is downstream of us.  What we often forget to factor in is what we are putting into our lives that will, in turn, influence what comes after us, or what is upstream of us. Similar to eating habits, what we put in directly correlates with what we put out. If we are constantly filling our lives with things that are not hopeful, we will not leave behind a legacy of hope. On the other hand, if we fill our lives with faith, hope, and love, we will leave behind a legacy of faith, hope, and love. Just as Colossians 1:4-5 says, “because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people—the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel.” The message of hope and love that we keep upstream in our lives helps others hear about the gospel downstream.