B.C or A.D.?

The church during the Christmas season is so beautiful and special as we come together to celebrate God's greatest gift to the world... His Son, Jesus Christ. Every year the church celebrates and remembers three distinct events that changed the course of time and all humanity:
The church at the birth of Christ
The church at the cross of Christ
The church at the resurrection of Christ

The birth of Christ split time in half between B.C. and A.D.. B.C. is used to label time "before Christ's" birth. A.D. (anno Domini) or more fully (anno Domini nostril Jesu Christi) "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ" marks the time after the birth of Christ. The purpose of the B.C./A.D. dating system (developed around 500 A.D. and formally adopted around 800A.D.) was to make the birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. Jesus Christ is the separation between the "old" and the "new."

Every human heart is divided between B.C. and A.D.. We are either living before accepting Christ (B.C.) or after accepting Christ as our personal Savior and Lord (A.D.). We are reminded in Philippians 2:10-11, "That at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
All eternity is determined by Jesus Christ!

So, are you living in B.C. or A.D.?

From the Heart,
Pastor BR Johnson