Yours Liner Notes: The Rochester Project

This compact disc is the result of an unusual dream. We set out to create this original music for you with three goals in mind. First, this music is our gift to you as a member of our community. All profits will benefit a charity that impacts the lives of real people at the time of their greatest need. Second, the musicians you will hear on this compact disc are united by their love for Jesus Christ as Savior, Friend, and Lord. The songs we share speak honestly about the challenges of finding meaning in our hectic world. Behind every song is the message that each of us has found purpose and meaning in life through our personal relationships with Jesus. Third, music is our passion, and few joys can compare with what we have experienced in sharing the creation of this music with each other and with you.

One hears much confusion today on the subjects of religion, faith, and Christianity. How can one separate the hoaxes, myths, and selfish opinions? As you listen to this music, we encourage you to take a fresh look at the God who has been pursuing a relationship with you since before you were born. Some of you know about him, but don't know him. Some are curious. Some of you have lost hope. Others have never heard of his pursuit, or the lengths to which he has gone to build a bridge to reach you. Some of you were once driven by the desire to know him, but your devotion has waned. To all of you we offer these humble truths. There is a single timeless God whose creativity and purposes are beyond our comprehension. Yet though this God exists outside of time and space, he has a personality, and evidently an enduring desire for personal relationships with people like you and me. A glimmer of his love for us is revealed through the pages of the Bible, an account of the ways in which this God has reached into time and space to beckon us to him. This account culminates with a description of God himself entering our history to accomplish his ultimate goal. We read in the Bible that through conscious and subconscious rebellion we each have become hopelessly separated from God. We read that no amount of human effort will ever suffice to win us back to God's favor. Our hope of earning an eternal place with God is a hollow delusion. We learn in the Bible that the bridge back to God cannot be built by us from our side of the chasm we have created.

Despite this hopeless situation, the Bible reveals some remarkable good news that we now joyfully proclaim to you. The bridge back to God has been built, but from his side to ours. God has pursued us by entering our own history as a man, a man like no other before or since. A man sharing humanity and deity, prepared to pay the debt we never could pay- the debt required for our forgiveness. His mission was to create the bridge back to himself. That man was Jesus Christ, described in the Bible as God's own son, who was tortured and died by crucifixion as a sacrifice for you and for me two millenia ago.

This good news has two parts. First, God has provided the bridge back to himself. It is a bridge we never could have built. Second, the bridge is available to any of us if we simply choose to walk across. Knowing about the bridge is step one. Crossing the bridge is step two.

We invite you, right this moment, to take step one by choosing to believe that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ has provided you with the only available bridge to God. Then take step two. Ask Jesus to forgive you, accepting his death as the personal payment for your rebellion. By this decision, you step across the bridge into a personal relationship with the God of the universe.

There are many practical ways for you to grow closer to God, once you have crossed the bridge he built for you. First, take time to learn of his love. Start by reading the Book of John in the New Testament of the Bible. Second, share your decision with people you love. Third, seek out a church where the Bible is taught and where you can learn more about God's love. TRP

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