Digging Down the Roof

March 4, 2007

Opening Text: Revelation 21:5-7

Mark 2:1-12

Proposition: Power of faithful response to the gospel is the key that unlocks the power of the gospel.

March 11, 2007 – DST – Indiana will now change the clock

Change- Mahan’s 17 years ago

Dora Ruckell retirement and the history of the presidents - March 4

I. The Change of the Man on the Mat

- Purpose of the Kingdom (Message of forgiveness of sins and arrival of the kingdom)

- Response to the faith of the four men

II. The Challenge of the Religious Relics

Relevant vs. Relic

Quote McReynolds

III. Change and Moscow

Why Rod?

What Do We Plan to Do?

1 baptizing 1000 a day would take over 13515 years to convert the world

1 training 2 people 33 years

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin'.