One Lord

Me

Yesterday i said i am not good at school

but i love learning new things or asking questions to find things out

My favourite classes in highschool were biology and social

I am fasinated with biology, psychology, and history

I constintally ask my psychology and counselling proff questions about how certain things work

or i love watching documentaries

or learning about historical figures

Sometimes i have been told by random people that i ask too many questions

I have also been told i d

so this mindset that i ask too many questions have held me back from asking to deep questions because i feel like i am being too much

I sometimes have even had questions about God

There was even a point and time in my life where I had a hard time believing in God because i have had questions that have been unsolved

We

Who likes asking questions?

Who else has

Have you guys ever had questions about God that never got answered?

Have you ever thought about where the evidence of God is?

God

This idea of God or our one Lord can be hard for some people to grasp

Athiests

skeptics

unbelievers

We are always asking questions

Did Jesus exist?

Is the bible true?

it can be changed over the years

Textual critizism

Textual critizism

This is a way to look at ancient writings or manuscripts to discover the original writing

The more manuscripts there are the more we can be certain the words are as close as possible to the original writting

Ancient historians are normally never question but when it comes to the New Testament, it is always under scrutany.

There are historians that only have from 5 - 20 copies and they are never argued to be true, but the new testament has around 20,000+ more copies but it is always believed as not true

If you want to speak to this, please come to Mr. Mac’s room at lunch and I would love to answer any questions you may have

But how can we trust in this Jesus guy?

How do we know he wasn’t just a great prophet?

Because about what he said about himself

Here are some examples:

The New International Version Chapter 6

I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

The New International Version Chapter 10

I and the Father are one.

I and the Father are one.

The New International Version Chapter 11

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest

anyone who receives me receives the Father

Jesus is telling us that Him and the Father are equal

They are One

They are One Lord

But maybe just hearing scripture is not good enought for you, here are some real people that have spoken to their experience

C.S. Lewis, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Then next is a guy named Mark Clark who is the Senior pastor of villiage church

grew up in an atheistic home

was a skeptic himself

but through searching and studying he said this about Jesus

“I saw that in the Gospel he existed but then I began realizing that people outside the bible who had no christian agenda, were claiming he existed. It was through that that i saw that its not an emotion, its not true because I want it to be true, Its true because the tomb was empty, it was an actual historical event”

Peoples lives have been changed by God in different ways

My life has been

Share when i was called to ministry

You

What is holding you back from fully believing in God?

What are the hardest things to believe about christianity?

By you asking questions, does not make you a bad christian or a bad person, it just means that you’re cautious and want to make sure that this is real before you hop in.

Never let someone tell you your questions are not valuable

sometimes the greatest believes are the ones who search the most and not become complacent with the surface level problems

God gave you brains that work in wonderous ways for a reason

We

We as a community must push eachother to greater depths

Jesus, our lord, put his disciples in some awkward and hard situations

he pulled the best out of them

but that didnt come without questions and skeptizism

Peter denied Jesus three times even after Jesus warned him he would

This journey with God is not easy, there are ups and downs but that doesnt mean it is not fullfilling

Even when we fall, our Lord is running towards us to embrace us and welcome us home

The New International Version Chapter 15

But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate

God loves you and wants to spend eternity with him

Remember, even though you

Questioning things

or turn your back on God

He will always run towards us with love and compassion