Finding Hope Through Discovery in Bible Study

  Learning to Think Like Jesus When Hearts Are Turned Back to God   November 27, 2021   Larry R Evans   Introduction Listen to this, Israel. GOD is calling you to account — and I mean all of you, everyone connected with the family that he delivered out of Egypt. Listen! "Out of all the families on earth, I picked you. Therefore, because of your special calling, I'm holding you responsible for all your sins." Do two people walk hand in hand if they aren't going to the same place?  ( The Message,  Amos 3:1-3 ) George Barna tells of a conversation he had with two pastors who had been attending one of his seminars.  “So, what do you guys do to help your people get a biblical worldview?”   One pastor told of how they have missionaries speak in his church services several times a year.  The Sunday school class had reports about and prayed for other parts of the world.  “We make sure that they realize the American Church is not the total sum of God’s work in the world.  Our

  Living God’s Love (The Stranger in Your Gates) Part II   Scheduled for October 30, 2021 Shared in Class November 13, 2021     The late Charles Colson often asked, “What is Christianity?”  He said about half of those he asked responded with, “A relationship with Jesus.”  Would you agree?  What does that relationship look like?   Colson went on and answered his question this way,   “ That is wrong. The gospel cannot be merely a private transaction. God didn ’ t break through history, through time and space, to come as a babe, be incarnated, and suffer on the cross just so you can come to him and say,  ‘ Oh, I accept Jesus and now I can live happily ever after. ’  That ’ s not why he came. . .. Jesus came as a radical to turn the world upside down. When we believe it is just about Jesus and yourself, we miss the whole point … . Christianity is a way of seeing all of life and reality through God ’ s eyes. ”  (David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons in Unchristian, p.87) As one Christian leader sai