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Open your Bibles this morning to the book of Matthew, the first book of the NT, and one of the four gospels, the four records we have of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you would turn in your Bibles to

As we come together this morning to hear God’s Word in the Bible we come from a week, really from a lifetime of being surrounded by different voices. Different influences. Different voices calling for our attention, different voices calling for our allegiance. Really, has any generation ever had so many voices so constantly competing for their attention. Many of us wake to an alarm, not an alarm clock, but an alarm which part of a phone, a phone which is a computer connected to millions of other computers and with access to more information than the greatest intellectuals could have ever accessed even if they had spent their lives visiting libraries. All of this information is at our fingertips from the moment we wake up. Of course most people don’t wake up and start scanning through the libraries of New York, London, and Alexandria. No, we have facebook notices from our friends to look at, their pictures, their comments, their outrage, and their delights call our minds to snap to attention. We are inundated with texts and tweets and updates from the moment we wake up, before we ever get out of bed. Our lives are saturated with phone calls, emails, snail mail, messaging, voxing, and that is just from our friends. That doesn’t even start to think about advertisers reminding us that out that we need a better car, a better style, a better TV, a better whatever the very targeted advertising knows I need, knows I was looking at. We are overrun with friends and advertisers before we even have our first cup of coffee. We are awash in advertisements, soundbites, snapchats, instagrams, tweets, and texts. They come at us like a storm surge of information that floods our minds. And of course that does not even touch the world of ideas. There are news videos, articles, newspapers, news shows, news memes, books, ebooks all arguing for different points of view. Is Western Civilization a decadent and wicked culture that needs to be bombed into oblivion. Or, is Western Civilization a culture finally progressing towards social and sexual freedom after millenia of religious oppression, or is Western Civilization a culture in a death spiral as it looses the light and the saltiness it got from religion. Is Trump a Liar, or are the media Liars, or are they all liars. The voices land on us like the rain of a hurricane they are overwhelming, they drown us in their constant down fall. And of course I have not even mentioned the voices from within, perhaps the strongest voices of all. Longing for food, drink, sex, a shoulder to cry on, a listening ear, a cheap thrill, an extreme sport, a cause to fight for. When I was a kid every now and then you would see a TV show where a character was having a moral dilemna and the show would show their battle between right and wrong by putting a little angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. I only wish it were that simple. All the voices around me feels like a crowded carnival of angels and demons, angels and demons of a million different shades of red and white storming my mind and begging for my ears, my mind, my heart. Has ever a generation been surrounded by more voices than ours.

This morning I want to remind you of another voice. It is the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the voice that the Bible tells us God wants us to listen to. Our passage this morning is from where the voice of God comes from a cloud and says, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased, listen to him.” The passage is not hard to understand, God is calling his first followers Peter, James, and John to listen to the voice of Jesus. These are words that still apply to us today, we are called by God’s voice to listen to the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ. So let me ask you then have you ever heard the voice of Jesus? Have you ever heard the kinds of things he said while he was here on earth? Have you ever heard the voice of God’s Son? I think it is very possible that many here this morning have never heard the kinds of things he said. Many will say he is a great teacher, but how many know what he taught. Islam says he is a great prophet second only to Mohommed but how many really know what he said? And many Christians who believe in Him often get used to how radical and wonderful his words really are. I remember years ago the Church I was serving at had a language partners ministry, a simple ministry where English speakers read the Bible with new English speakers. I remember how shocked one Chinese student when she read that Jesus was the bread of life, how wonderful, but horrifically we get used to that. How vital to hear the wisdom and the wonder of the voice of Jesus. We need to remember what a gracious command of Jesus it is to speak to us, and for God to say listen up. This is a really wonderful gift becasue in the Bible we read that “no one ever spoke like this man.” He was a man who could answer scholars questions, but at the same time large crowds heard him gladly, he was a man who made himself plain, and at the same time many of the things he said were not fully understood until after he was dead. He was a man who never wrote a word, but his spoken words include sermons, dialogues, proverbs, parables, prophecies, and promises. It is a wonderful grace of God to tell us to listen to Him. When we listen to Jesus we learn how people were made, “male and female he created them.” (& 19). When we listen to Jesus we learn how sinful people have become, “There is none good except God.” When we listen to Jesus we learn what God desires to do for sinful people, “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” We learn what we must do to be a part of this salvation, “Repent and believe for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” We learn the path of Christian discipleship, we are a people blessed to suffer, and promised that if we walk through this life in purity of heart we will on the last day see God. We learn God’s marvelous promises to hear our prayers, “ask anything in my name and I will do it.” We learn God’s marvelous promises to believers, “I am going to prepare a place for you and if I go I will come back and take you to myself.” There is nothing sweeter in the world than listening to Jesus. It is not only wonderful but Jesus tells us it is to be our priority. When Mary and Martha had Jesus in their home Martha was busy, busy, busy, cleaning the house (a good thing to do) but Mary her sister did the better thing. Jesus said, that her stopping everything to listen to him was the better part. Here in Matthew’s gospel God tells us to listen to Jesus.

Dear friends I want to encourage you to consiously build your lives on the words of Jesus. If you do he will teach you what to believe to be saved from the wrath of God, and how to walk as a person who has been saved all the way to life after death. If you take Jesus words as your foundation for life, as your guide, as the voice that tells you what to make of all the other voices around you will find your life is built on a rock and not on sand that will cave in all around you. Jesus himself said something very important you should listen to on this matter. He said, “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell and the flood came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears theses words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” If you shape your life by any other voice other than Jesus voice your life will fall apart, maybe not in this life (though often in this life) but definitely after death when the judgment of God comes your life will be like a double wide trailer in the path of Hurricane Irma it will be destroyed, but if you listen to Jesus your life will have a foundation that will last forever. No difficulties will destroy your soul here on earth, no wrath will burn you up in judgement. Your life will stand forever IF you follow the voice of Jesus.

Christian do you read your Bible? The whole thing contains the words of Christ. Jesus often quoted the OT, and what he did not quote he taught us how to read in a way that points to him? Do you read the Word that is meant to show you Christ. Perhaps the single most important step you could take towards growing as a Christian this year would be to listen to God’s voice from heaven as he speaks to you from the Bible. I want to exhort you men, get up a little early, get up early the way you would if you were working for a promotion, but this time get up early to labor to establish your life on the words of the Bible. Many of you want to provide financially for your families, some of you are trying to provide Child Support, some of you are trying to provide an inheratance, all of you should be more concerned that you provide your children with a Dad whose life is set on the rock of Christ’s Word. A Dad who when rich and poor has a life that cannot be torn down because it is set on the rock of Christ’s Word.

Many of you here today are intrigued by Christ. You are hearing things in him you never heard in school, never heard in the Catholic Church, never heard in Islam, never heard anywhere. You are hearing something unique, something compelling, your having a little of that experience, “no one ever taught like this man.” You are recognizing his uniqueness but you are not sure you are ready to follow him, to trust Him, to tune the allegiance of your life to the voice of His grace. What should you do? There is one thing I would recommend more than anything else, listen to Him. Yes, the Bible says, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ.” How do you come to a place where you believe. Listen to him. Our Pastors would be happy to talk to you about why you can trust the Bible. Our people are happy to talk about what he has done in their lives, but above everything let Him speak for Himself, his voice has the ring of truth, a powerful note of authority that has won the hardest of hearts, so I commend this to you, like God said, listen to Him.

Listen to Him Above Moses

This scene, the context, the true story our verse comes from is full of significance. Every person involved in this story is literally one of the most influencial people in the Bible. Of course there is Jesus, the God man, the King of Kings and the Lord or Lords, the voice above all voices, but there is also what are often called Jesus inner circle. Jesus, because he was really a man could not have infinite intimate relationships. He preached to crowds but he did not individually disciple each one. He discipled twelve, and of those twelve he made a particular investment in three. Peter, James, and John. These three would go on to be James the leader of the Church in Jerusalem and one of the first martyrs, John the author of 5 New Testament books, and Peter the man behind the gospel of Mark, 2 letters, and the man who would preach the sermon that led 3000 to the Lord. This is a group of future heavyweights with Jesus on the Mountain top. On top of these 3 men, two men are literally made to appear 700 years and 1400 years after they died. In this scene Moses the great Law giver of Israel, and Elijah the great prophet of Israel appear and they speak with Jesus. Now I know this seems strange but it is a great reminder of the great Biblical truth that no one ceases to exist when they die. Those who disobey God continue to exist after they die under his wrath, and those who trust and obey Him continue to exist after they die under his smile. So here we have Jesus the greatest man who ever lived, in fact more than a man, and we have three of the greatest leaders who from the time after the life and death of Jesus, and two of the greatest leaders from the time before Jesus lived on earth. In the midst of this great gathering, Jesus begins to glow, more than glow to shine, to radiate, to shine like the sun, he is changed before them into a man who shines like the Sun with such intensity that his clothes become whiter than snow. It is a supernatural event. Three men are being prepared for a supernatural ministry. Two are supernaturally back on earth after their earthly deaths, and one of them is shining with his natural glory. He is pulling back the veil of his flesh to show His glory that filled the halls of heaven.

Well if you know the Bible, you know this majestic moment is perfect moment for Peter to stick his foot in his mouth. The gospel of Mark when recording this incident says, Peter spoke because he did not know what to say. That’s Peter (and honestly I can relate) when you don’t know what to say, say something. Luke’s gospel says that when Peter spoke here he had just been super sleepy “did not know what he was saying.” So what did Peter say, “He said, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I wil make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” You might say what’s wrong with that. He wanted to make a tent for each so each was comfortable, or perhaps more likely so each was memorialized and honored. What’s so bad about that? What’s wrong with that is that he thought that Elijah, Moses, and Jesus were in the same league. He thought they all deserved to be honored on the all-star team but what he did understand was there was an infinite difference between Moses, Elijah, and Jesus.

Perhaps a Hockey illustration would be permissable at a time like this. In American Basketball and American Football you have a fiery debate. Who is the GOAT? Who is the greatest of all time? Is it Micheal? Is it Lebron? Is it Wilt, or Koby? In Football is it Montana? Is it Manning? Some of the guys here will not even be able to listen to the rest of the sermon because I did not mention another name, but in Football and Basketball there is a debate. But in hockey there is no debate. In Hockey there is a very official way that the whole league has said there is no debate. In hockey there is one number that is retired across the league. The Pittsburg Penguins can retire 88 for Mario Lemieux, but if you play for Philly or Tampa you can be 88, but there is one number no player can wear, it is retired across the league, of course the number is 99 the number of the great one, Wayne Gretzky. No debate, another league. That is the faintest idea of what is going on here. Peter says can we retire all their numbers. God says, “This is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased.” Now the statement is not a slam against Moses, it is simply a declaration of Jesus absolute superiority. In the OT it is interesting it says Moses face shone when he saw God, but here Jesus face is shining because he is God. In the book of Hebrews it says Moses was faithful like a servant, but Jesus is faithful like a Son. When God says, “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.” He was telling three Jewish leaders that if they were going to follow God they needed to place the words of Jesus far above the words of Moses. They needed to see that his brightness had eclipsed Moses’ light. After God spoke notice what happened, “they saw no one only Jesus.” This is a key truth of Christianity. Jesus is not one voice among many. He is not one voice in the crowd. That is what Hinduism does with Jesus. Hinduism has hundreds of thousands of gods and they are happy to add Jesus to the list, but Jesus will not be added to a list, he is above all other voices. He is even above the greatest voice of the entire OT.

Now the fact that Jesus voice trumps Moses voice is actually some of the sweetest news you can ever hear because when the NT summarizes what Moses said, when the NT tells you the Coles notes of Moses, it says he came with a ministry of condemnation. He came with a Law that said do this and live and if you don’t you will be condemned and die. This was what Moses said, it is not all he said, but it is the main message. Moses came to give us God’s Law and to expose that we had broken that Law. Moses came to say what your conscience tells you all the time, God has a standard and you are condemned for not meeting it. Moses came to tell us what we hear echos of in Catholocism, Islam, and Mormonism, if you do good enough you get life, if you do evil you get death. All of this came from clearest from Moses, and God says, don’t listen to Moses, do not let his voice trump Christ. Moses might show you your sin but Christ has come to give us salvation and it is the sweetest truth in the world that God says of Jesus this is my beloved son listen to Him.

Have you ever heard anything like Jesus. Have you ever heard one who says to people who are tired out from trying to be good enough for God he says, “Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” He says to people who see they are dead, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” Has Mohommed ever said anything like that to you? Has listening to your heart ever caused you to hear something like that? Only Jesus says he will give you rest, drink, food, life, salvation, forgiveness, and joy, and Jesus is the only voice God wants you listening too.

Listen to Jesus above Elijah

Now here is a problem, people don’t know who Elijah is these days. Most people don’t know their bibles, but if they do they might know the names Isaiah, Ezekiel, but who is Elijah, is he the guy from the B-team that God decided to throw in there up on the mountain with Moses? No, he is perhaps the greatest of the prophets, but he is often forgotten because he is not what we call a writing prophet, he does not have a book he wrote, but he was a man of miracles. He prayed and rain stopped, he prayed and it started, he prayed and fire fell from heaven, he prayed and a dead boy was raised, twice his word led to God killing fifty men with fire from heaven! He was a man of unusual power. But why is he here? Why Elijah, why not Isaiah, why not Ezekial, why Elijah? Well let me give you two speculations. One Elijah, or at least the spirit of Elijah was the one God would use to prepare the way of the Lord. One of the distinctive things about Elijah was that he wore camels hair, ate locusts, and preached repentance. Another interesting thing about Elijah is that it was prophesied that he would come before the Messiah came. He was the one who would prepare the way of the Lord. Well you may be aware that someone did come before Jesus the Messiah came and he came wearing camels hair and eating locusts, he came preaching repentance, he came JESUS says in the verses we read at the start of our sermon in that the spirit of his ministry was fulfilled in John the Baptist. So why Elijah? He is one who was called to prepare the way of the Lord and now the Lord is here. One more reason, and it flows out of the first. Elijah was a prophet. And the Jews often divided their Bible into two parts, the Law written by Moses, and the Prophets (the record and writings of men like Elijah). Now the role of the prophets was two fold, they called people back to the covenant given by Moses, do it do what Moses said, obey God they would preach, but they also came to prepare God’s people for more, for something, someone beyond Moses. They came to say there would be a new covenant, a new heart, a final forgiveness, a suffering savior, a global king. They said all that, so Elijah stands here seeing what the prophets prepared people for the glory of the Lord Jesus. says that Elijah and the other prophets spent their ministry, “inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.” Elijah had wondered but now he knew. All that they had foreshadowed when they raised the dead, and promised salvation was come in the glory of this Jesus of Nazareth and now he was here talking to Jesus on a mountain hundreds of years after a chariot had carried him up the heaven.

Can I say a note here to the depressed Christians among us. Can I speak to those who are discouraged and depressed, they have trusted Christ but the joy he promises seems to allude them most days, can I speak to them for a moment. Do you know that Moses and Elijah were men who knew depression, frustration, and discouragement. Moses knew what it was like to lead and not be followed, and then he knew what it was like to be disciplined more severly than others. Elijah fell into huge slumps of depression, feeling alone, feeling like he wished he never was born. But here hundreds of years later imagine their joy. Here everything they longed for when they panted to see the glory of God is in front of their eyes. All that would satisfy their souls and atone for their sins is before them face to face. NO longer does Moses see the backside of the glory of God. No longer does Elijah hear a still small voice now he talks to his lord as a friend. And in a few short years, even if the depression does not lift, that will be your experience as well. God will take you out of this body and when your absent from the body you will be present with the Lord. Sometimes discouragement and depression can be a terrible part of our walk with God. That’s why Martyn Lloyd Jones wrote spiritual depression its causes and cure and he said in chapter after chapter that there are Christians who say that a Christian can never be depressed, but these Christians have never read the “How Longs” of the Bible. They forget that the always rejoicing will sometimes be mixed with sorrowing, and as long as we struggle in this life sometimes the sorrowing will win. But in a few short years all the sorrowing will be gone, not just for the Christians who walked consistently in joy here on earth, but for the real Christians who pursued what one author called “A Long Obedience In The Same Direction.” even when they were down. In a few short years you will be present with the Lord of Glory.

That’s an important point to make but it is not the central point of this passage. Here the point is that the one the prophets prepared for and pointed to is here. All that the prophets pointed to is here. says, “Long ago at many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by His Son! “ When God sees his Son in the presence of John, James, and Peter boys who were raised hearing about Elijah, men who would be prone to putting Jesus in an Elijah category instead of realizing that Jesus is in a category all by Himself. He is the one all the prophets spoke about. Elijah raised the dead, Jesus is the one who will raise all the dead. Isaiah prophesied about a suffering servant who would die to justify many, Jesus is that suffering servant. Ezekial prophesied about dry bones that would live again, Jesus is the one who takes dead souls and makes them born again. Daniel is the one who said a Son of Man would come in glory to rule the nations. Jesus is the Son of Man who makes disciples of all nations. Jeremiah propheisied about one who would give a new heart, Jesus is the one who gives a new heart and a new covenant. Jesus is the one who all the prophets spoke to so it makes sense that his voice must be heard, listened to, and obeyed above theres.

At this point someone here has got to be wishing, I wish I was there, I wish I was there, I wish I could live in glory days like those. But it’s interesting, even though at the time Peter had the same reaction, he said it was good for him to be there (4), nevertheless later in life as he reflected on it, as he thought about this moment he did not really wish to go back. There is an interesting little verse in Peter 2nd book where Peter thinks about this time, this particular time and he says something we might not expect. He says, “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this voice from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And (and this is where it gets shocking) we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and morning star arises in your hearts.” Do you hear this? He is saying that the Bible that speaks about Jesus is more sure than the experience of Jesus on a mountain top. Wow. The Bible we have is the surest revelation of Jesus in the world. The glory of Jesus woke the disciples out of their sleepiness on that mountain, but it is the glory of Jesus in the Bible that will wake us up to all that really matters in life, to all that could be called Majestic Glory. May I ask you, do you read your Bible? You may say I am too sleepy, too spitually dry to read my Bible, I tell you that you are are too sleepy and too dry not to read your Bible. Can I encourage you to memorize one simple verse and to pray it each morning as you read a section, or a chapter, or chapters of your Bible. The verse is this, “Open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things from your Law.” Pray that everyday, and of course pray knowing that the most wonderful thing you can see in Moses, in the Prophets, in the New Testament is this Lord of Glory Himself.

We should listen to Jesus above every other voice.

Of course the mount of Transfiguration made it clear that Jesus is the ultimate voice in the whole Bible. Unless we have listened to learn from Him we will not understand the Bible at all. That is clear, but since the time of Moses and Elijah some religions have come in and said we cannot only listen to Jesus. Or at least we can’t hear his voice in the scriptures. That was the claim of liberal Christianity. They did not believe miracles were real, that the supernatural was real, so they said this Jesus of the Gospels had to updated, we needed to get behind this Christ of faith to the Christ of History who of course was a guy who did not do a bunch of miracles (since guys don’t do miracles) we need to just figure out what things in the gospel are based on the real Jesus and we will listen to him. We will listen to his excellent ethical teachings but not these miracles which of course are not real and can only have been invented by people willing to believe this stuff. The problem with this is that it is not really listening to the same Jesus. Jesus did not claim that he was a new moral teacher par excellence. He claimed to be the Son of God, a voice from Heaven declared that he was, his miracles attested to the hand of God on Him. One cannot just listen to the teaching because the teaching came from this God Man. The only reason Jesus has the authority to tell us what to believe, what to do, how to live, and what comes next after we die, the only reason he can say that is not because he knows all the awesome answers and ethics that we are going to love, but because he is the kind of person, the kind of God man that God loves. When people say they want to listen to the Christ of History stripped of his miracles they are saying they do not want to listen to the Christ God loves, but some rebranded version of Jesus that they love.

Other people distort the voice of Jesus by inserting another voice over Jesus, a later voice comes in that trumps Jesus. This is the way of both Islam and Mormonism. I mentioned some of the similarities between Mormonism and Islam a number of weeks ago but recently I have been shown even more similarities, striking similarities. Both start with an illiterate prophet who receives a private vision from God. In both religions that prophet speaks to the angel Gabriel. Both religions teach that the Bible used to be true but then it was corupted because Christians changed what it originally said. Both teach that good works are the way into heaven, and that there are multiple levels of heaven. The highest level of heaven is for those with the most perfect submission. Both are pro-polygamy. Both were split early when some followers wanted to follow a blood relative of the founder, and those who wanted to follow another leader. Both set up a holy book that trumps, that replaces the voice of Jesus in the scriptures. But let me ask you this? If Jesus is greater than Moses and Elijah not so much because he is a better man, but because he is the God Man. If he better not as a better Word but as a final Word, not a better servant in God’s house but as a Son! If He is better not as a better representative of God, but as the exact representative of God, not as someone who reflects glory like Moses, but someone who is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. If that is who Jesus is, then how could another man, any man, even a man as great as Moses or Elijah, how could any man come along with a word that is better than Jesus. Beloved Jesus is not the 24th prophet of Islam he is the one and only Son of God and God says listen to Him.

Oh beloved do not let anything stand in the way of listening to Jesus. Do not let your internal desires, your inmost self, your inner voice, your real self, do not let you stand in the way of listening to Jesus. For most people this is the main voice that stands in the way of hearing Jesus. Myself, my desires, my sense of myself. We live in a world where if we feel gay we are gay, if we feel like a girl we must be a girl, if we feel like experiencing love outside of marriage who can stand in my way. We live in a world where the voice of self reigns supreme. But God says, do not listen to that voice, he says this is my beloved Son, hear ye Him.

Oh and who ever spoke like Him?? Who ever acted like Him? Whoever spoke like Him?

“Come to me all you who are weary and heavy and laden and I will give you rest.”

“If any man thrist let him come to me and drink.”

“The Son of Man did not come to be serve but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

“I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

“I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”

“My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand.”

Can you believe it. The one who can make the eternal God of the universe pleased. The one the eternal God of the universe loves, says come to me, I’ll day to be a ransom for your sin. Come to me, I’ll give your tired soul rest. Come to me I’ll satisfy you. He satisfies God I think he can satisfy you!! And he says you can come even if your a sinner!! And even if your a sinner he will give you eternal life and he will never let you go!!! Oh what an amazing grace that God would say to us, Listen to Him. Well it must mean that the heart of God and the heart of Jesus are one. God wants to save you and keep you and receive sinners he can save as much as Jesus. He wants you to respond to Jesus.

So let me give you a few ways to respond.

First, in your heart where no one sees, just trust him. That is the most important and first response, just lean on him, lay on him, sit down your soul on Him, rest in Him, trust in Him, hear him and he will save you!!

Second, come talk to me. After the sermon just come talk to me. After the service I’ll be up at the front just come talk to me. If you’ve got questions talk to me. If your like one brother I talked to this week, you might be saying, “I just want to run down the aisle.” Do it after the service come talk to me.

Third, maybe that’s a little to personal, too one on one, go to our guest reception, a number of our Pastors and our members will be there and they would love to tell you a little bit about what we are all about, a little bit about following Jesus. That will be a gathering where a number of people will hear a little bit more about us. So if you’d like to just hear a little more that is a great place to be.

Finally, I’d invite you to talk to the poeple who invited you. Seriously, Christianity is not just passed on my Pastors it is passed on by any follower who listens to Him. If someone invited you, I am sure they would be delighted if you said you wanted to talk some more, to do a Bible Study, to read a book together, or the Bible together. Almost no one here became a Christian after one sermon, no one here did not have any questions. We’d love to be a place where we could think about your questions with you!