Is anyone beyond redemption?

Hope Bonarcher takes a look at the rush of celebrities claiming faith and challenges us to consider who we would find it hard to believe had truly been transformed 

New Year’s is about transformation. Out from the dead winter gleams a glistening opportunity for improvement and hope. It’s symbolic to the world, but for the Christian, it echoes new life in Christ. Not unlike Hogmanay’s fireworks festivities, all heaven erupts in feverous jubilation over even one sinner’s repentance (Luke 15:7). A human soul – eternal, made in God’s image – passes from death to life, simply by faith. God’s free gift of transformative grace is the intangibly lit spark every person needs for entrance to heaven. Yet so many live by the mistaken impression our good performance earns us eternal life.