Have you had enough of this yet? Everytime you catch the news, there's another bailout in the works. Banks, auto manufacturers, insurance companies - who can keep up with them all? Not only is the American tax-payer giving big bucks to these companies, but all sorts of shameful news is coming out of what that money is being used for. Bonuses for failing? How can that be fair? Capitalism is a reward-based system. If you are economical and do well, you thrive. If you run a sloppy operation and don't do well, you fail (or so we thought...).

But there's one bailout that I am not ashamed of. In fact, I am thrilled to see it.

Jesus bailed us out 2,000 years ago.

Can you imagine what it would be like if he hadn't? Oh, sure, we could try to dig ourselves out of the mess we're in. But we just can't do it. But Jesus stepped in, took all our bad debts (our sins) upon himself, paid for them, and gave us new life. When it comes to our salvation, thank God he didn't choose capitalism as his system.

Pastor Jansen