Burger King, TAN, and the Cross

Now that I have a job working for Burger King I feel like I should express the fact that I do happen to love it! I hope and trust I will continue to do so as I work there as well. Anyway, they have a slogan that is catchy and appealing (maybe that is why they use it...). "Have It Your Way." While this is true for food at Burger King and true to extents in other aspects as well, it does not apply to salvation. Why? Because "our" salvation isn't and never really was "our" salvation in the sense that it belongs to us and we make the rules. John writes, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb" (Revelation 7:10). But hear me out because that is actually the best news we could possibly hear! If it belonged to us and somehow depended on us to any extent we would fail and lose it for sure!

To quote Matt Chandler, "We've got this weird compartmentalization thing that happens where you don't think that God sees all that you are, or that if He could have somehow known who you were going to be He wouldn't have gone to the Cross. Um, listen, God knew you were going to be messy; Christ knew you were going to be messy. God knows you are going to screw up often. He knows that you're going to be drawn to things that are wicked. That's what the Cross is all about. That's the whole point of the Cross is that you are going to fail, and you're going to stumble, and you're going to feel dirty, and you're going to feel awkward. The whole point of the Cross is that there'd be this mighty picture of His love and pursuit of you despite you. So, the Cross is necessary because of you, but it is also the picture we have of just how far God is willing to go because He loves you.


And with that, feel free to watch the How He Loves video with Matt Chandler and John Piper, but also I wanted to share this video: