advice vs. news

During communion, the pastor went up to do his introduction and it really struck me. Advice vs. news. Pretend you're in a situation where you have cancer. Which of the following phrases are more comforting and reassuring?

a) you need to eat right, need to go to these activities, and do this.
b) you've been cured from your cancer.

Obviously b) right? He said that we often take church and christianity, and see it as advice. We see it as a set of rules, and we have to follow it, we have certain practical steps to overcome this, and go through that, but this isn't how we should be living, with and as advice. We should be living the news. The good news, that Christ has risen and that we are saved.

When he was talking about that, i thought to myself. "I'm saved." It was quite reassuring! We often think that we're continuously working towards salvation, when the truth is we're already saved, we're already in the book of life, and he's already prepared a place for us. We need to be in constant reminder that we're saved.

so will you continue to live in advice, or live out the news?


verse of the day: Romans 10:9

⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believein your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.