Gearing Up For New Series

I'm already super-pumped this morning after having a chance to speak to the Wellborn football team and cheerleaders at their prayer breakfast. What an awesome opportunity it is to be able to minister in our local school like that. This was the second prayer breakfast that EFBC has been a part of at WHS, and Koy was able to speak to them at the one we did back in September. It's exciting to see the great things that are happening at the school, and we pray for even bigger and better things in the coming days (and I'm not talking about winning football games, although that's been great, too!).

I'm also stoked this morning about a new series of messages I'll be beginning this Sunday entitled Frequently Asked Questions. These messages will be a little different than what I usually preach, as we are going to try and tackle a myriad of difficult questions that are most often asked about Christianity and the things we believe. Here's the questions we're going to attempt to answer this Sunday:

1. Is it wrong for Christians to celebrate Halloween?
2. What about the people who've never heard about Jesus?
3. Can a person lose their salvation?
4. Is it biblical to speak in tongues?
5. Is tithing a New Testament practice?
6. Does God hear the prayers of non-Christians?
7. What does the Bible say about tattoos and piercings?
8. How were people saved in the Old Testament?

Now don't be alarmed by the number of questions, because I honestly don't know if we'll get through all eight of these this Sunday. We're going to start tackling questions one at a time and if we run out of time, we'll just go back and pick up the ones we missed on the next Sunday.

It's going to be different because there's going to be no real connection from question to question. But that's ok, and actually, that's the way I want it. And even though the questions may seem disjointed at times, I can promise you that in the end I'm going to tie it all back to the Gospel. Although I don't plan to make it a habit to preach like this, I believe we need to do things like this from time to time. In fact, I've got two very clear goals for this series:

1. To offer support to Christians who may not always know what to say when others have questions. (1 Peter 3:15)
2. To spark an interest in those who may have asked some of these very same questions.

Goal number 2 is going to provide an opportunity for you to invest and invite in your friends and family members who don't know Jesus. Let them know we're going to be tackling a lot of difficult questions. Let them know that we're going to try and answer as many of the frequently asked questions about Christianity as we can. And most importantly, let them know that you love them and that you'd love to sit with them in church this Sunday.

You may want to copy this web address and send it on to someone you think might be interested. Who knows? God may use something as simple as an electronic message to radically change their lives this weekend. I couldn't be more excited about what I believe God is going to do through this series of messages, and I can't wait to see how He is going to show up at Eulaton this Sunday!

Come expecting God to move! Come expecting lives to be changed! And come knowing that the best is yet to come!