Christ\u2019s lordship is good because of what Christ as Lord rescues us from; because of all that follows from being under Christ\u2019s rule and care. It matters whose kingdom you belong to. The lordship of Christ delivers us from death\u2019s rival claim (Romans 14.8-9; 1 Corinthians 15.15-26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That idea of a lord as protector may not speak so directly to us today, but it is central to the theology of the New Testament. As Karl Barth wrote, it belongs to \u201cdivine mercy\u201d for us to have Christ as Lord, and in that way to be delivered \u201cfrom all other lordships\u201d. Not for nothing does a famous passage from Romans end its list of vanquished impediments to life in God with invocation of Christ as Lord: \u201cFor I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord\u201d (Romans 8.38-39).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cost of confessing allegiance to \u201cone Lord\u201d was not lost on early Christians. Martyrs, burned alive or sent to the lions, demonstrated the consequences of belonging to only one lord, when that lord was not Caesar. The benefits, however, were not lost on them: \u201cHe has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins\u201d (Colossians 1.13-14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> “Working through the Creed, clause by clause, we find that every line of it turns out to be good news.”
In the first part of a new occasional series, @@AP_Davison<\/a> encourages believers to look for the good news in every clause of their profession of faith https:\/\/t.co\/ySN2ZORMtg<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Church Times (@ChurchTimes) April 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>