Axios is the Greek word for worthy and it encompasses two main ideas in the New Testament: The first is that by Jesus' sacrifice we are made worthy of salvation. This is the image found in Revelation 5 where the earth is scoured and all are without hope because none is found worthy to open the scroll–such an incredibly depressing scene that it causes John to weep. But in an instant the mood shifts: “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered”. We have hope because our Lord is worthy and ‘by His blood He ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. The second sense of the word is that we are to live this life in a worthy manner to honor God, which is the way that Paul uses it in many of his letters. We want to be deemed worthy not only by His sacrifice but also by how we live and who we are. We understand that our worth is not stabilized by our productivity to the wor...