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Welcome & Announcements: Daniel
Sunday School: This Sunday is the first week of Sunday School.
Today we will be doing an overview and introduction.
There will be a brief volunteer training time before Sunday School this week.
Small Groups: This coming Thursday (January 27th @ 6:30 pm), we will be meeting at Daniel & Lynette's new house.
Content: We will be watching a series called, Gentle & Lowly.
Fellowship Sunday: We will be having a Fellowship Sunday after service on January 30th.
Call to Worship in Song:
Bless The Lord/10,000 Reasons
All I have Is Christ
Scripture Reading: Someone Needed
Old Testament Text: Psalm 33
New Testament Text: John 1:1-5
Offering & Pastoral Prayer: Daniel
Since I mentioned last week about the ordinance in the state of Indiana, I will mention it again today.
If enacted, it would criminalize faith-based counseling to minors on issues related to human sexuality with the threat of a fine from the police of $1000 per day.
While we do not condone Conversion Therapy, 31-21’s definition of “Conversion Therapy” casts such a wide net that it knowingly or unknowingly undermines:
personal liberty (people should have the right to select the counselor of their choice),
parental rights (parents must be the ones who choose their child’s counselor),
religious liberty / the separation of church and state (faith-based counselors must have the freedom to counsel people based on their deeply held religious convictions without government harassment or discrimination).
The second reading of Ordinance is scheduled for Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Adoration
Accessibility
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication
Marian Mason (Kaye)
Bill Shillingburg (Kaye)
John Sine (Molly)
Jared
Pray for our baby
Jeremiahs Grandfather
The family of Ed Holterman
Prayer
The New Testament is abundantly clear, the core of Christianity centers upon the person and work of Jesus Christ.
C. Crucified
O. Obedience
R. Resurrection
E. Eyewitnesses
If this CORE is simply myth or legend, we SHOULD reject it.
If this CORE never really happened in time and space, we SHOULD run from it.
EVERY religion that has ever been founded began with one man, or a few individuals having an experience.
Buddhism - the pursuit of Nirvana and peace
Islam - Muhammad literally claimed to have received the Quran by himself on a mountain.
Only he could understand the vision and others followed him.
Mormonism - A weird mutation of Christianity, but again this time Joseph Smith believed that an angel gave him golden tablets that only he could read.
Especially the NEW AGE Spirituality - Literally founded upon everyone’s individual experiences.
Sharing with the Girl in the Lane Center
I was sharing one time at Frostburg with several high school students.
The girl who was learning to share was sharing about her experience with Christianity, and how Jesus has changed her life.
She was doing an exceptional job of sharing her testimony.
At the end of it, the girl she was sharing with looked back at her and began sharing her experience.
Her experience was NOT the same…
She hated her experience with Christianity.
She then turned and shared how she has started experimenting with Buddhism.
It then turned into a discussion of experience.
As I reflect on that story, I am reminded of the importance of sharing the CORE message of Christianity.
We live in a time where everyone is enamored with experience.
They love to share their experiences and compare experiences.
We have whole shows and genre’s around people’s experiences.
And in the realm of faith the argument goes, “My experience is just as valid as your experience.”
But John is showing us that Christianity is radically different.
He is NOT saying that experience is NOT important.
But He is helping us reorient around the SOLID CORE foundation of our faith.
The Historicity of the CORE
When John writes, he does so with a kind of certainty which many today find unsettling.
He writes as one who witnessed something first hand.
This makes sense because he tells us exactly what he is doing in verse 3.
He is not just telling us a story, he is proclaiming to us.
That means he is not trying to give his opinion alongside every other opinion in the culture.
He is proclaiming.
Declaring, Announcing, what is true.
There is a sense of urgency and potency with this message.
What exactly is he proclaiming to us?
Notice in the first sentence, he doesn’t even tell us what the subject of what he is saying is.
The word which is rightly translated “that which” in our Bibles is a pronoun.
A pronoun is: a word (such as I, he, she, you, it, we, or they) that is used instead of a noun or phrase
Verse 1 does not even have a subject.
We don’t exactly know who or what exactly John is talking about yet.
He says that it is about the “word of life”
It sounds kinda like a message, but a message would not be sufficient.
It’s not possible to look upon a message, or touch a message.
He goes on to explain in verse 3 that “his Son Jesus Christ” is actually the subject.
1 John 1:1 (ESV)
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