Why would Christians share their faith? A week after the vote, we know sometime soon a 2 year countdown to Brexit will begin. Simply knowing the countdown is coming sends us scurrying into action. Christians live knowing a greater, more important countdown has already started- the countdown to Jesus’ return. Listen in as we think about 7 reasons Christians will share their faith and 7 ways they might prepare to share.
Exodus 24:1-18William Tyndale said that the gospel is good news that “makes a man’s heart glad and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy”. But what is so good about the good news? And how can we grasp that more? And how can we recover our joy in it if we’ve lost it?
Exodus 18:1-12 ‘Did you even hear what I said?’ is a phrase that gets used a lot- at work, at home, in relationships. Exodus wants to ask us the same question- have we heard what God’s said about himself in his great acts of deliverance. Listen in as we watch one man responding rightly.
John 1:14 Sigmund Freud famously claimed that belief in God is just a projection of our childhood need to have the love and protection of a father-figure. Does it matter if he was right? What evidence is there that he was wrong?
Matthew 4:4 Are you someone who eats?! Of course! Our physical bodies need food to sustain them; the physical life we have needs food in order to continue. And it’s the same with our spiritual life, our soul. Jesus said “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Exodus 15:22-17:7 We live in one of the most prosperous societies there has ever been, yet it is still full of grumbling. If society’s promises let us down, will it be the same with God? Do we have to grumble at God’s failure to provide or have we got good reason to trust him to work all things for our good. Listen in as we look at Israel’s experience in the desert.
Exodus 20:22-23:33 ’What has happened to all your joy?’ The Galatian believers to whom Paul wrote those words had a wrong understanding of the Law. It had robbed them of their joy and ran the risk of robbing them of their salvation. What is the relationship of the Christian to the Law? It’s vital we get this right.
Exodus 14:1-15:21 Like the Israelites at Red Sea, we find ourselves fearing what’s coming over the hill toward us. Even if we don’t call it fear, we find ourselves controlled by what a colleague, an employer, a family member thinks of us. In this account, God shows that it is actually only a greater fear which can drive out fear.
Exodus 19:1-20:21 The 10 Commandments are often seen as a ladder to climb- getting to God by our own performance. But Exodus says God’s rescue comes first. Why did God give the 10 commandments? How do they help us know God better, ourselves better and Jesus better?
Exodus 11:1-13:16 Captain Phillips is an edge-of-your-seat drama about the rescue of a container ship from Somali pirates. There’s nothing quite like a good rescue drama, but it can feel very remote from our daily lives. The difference with the rescue drama in Exodus is that it’s actually all about us.
