1:1-20 –What sustains and unites the church is not a pastor or a program.  It’s not worship style or music.  What sustains and unites the church is the perseverance of Jesus coming for those that need Him!  The apostle Paul highlights the role of the law as well as the mercy that God showed him as the “foremost” sinner.  This same mercy in Jesus Christ remains the church’s only hope!  The church is the place where sinners are welcomed so they can be supernaturally changed by the Savior. So, let’s not misunderstand what Jesus came to do, and in our telling of the Good News, let’s not misrepresent what the gospel offers. We to get lost in details and side issues, let’s come back to the center. The cancer the gospel proposes to cure is this: our sins against God!