Attendance: 37
Songs for worship:
- Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall
- How Great is Our God by Chris Tomlin
- Give Me Your Eyes by Brandon Heath
- The Stand by Hillsong United
- Mighty to Save by Hillsong United
The main idea of this message was: Why do we need Jesus?
The main scripture used was: Romans 5.12-14, 20
"When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. Still, everyone died- from the time of Adam to the time of Moses- even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did."Then a little later says, in verse 20:
"God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were."The main part of this message was focused on why people don't think the Bible is trustworthy. One thing out campus minister said during the message was:
"You cannot look at the Bible and say that it's your new science textbook, even thought there are some interesting lessons that you can pull out of the Bible that are proven in the fields of science. That's not what the Bible was given for."The focus of why people don't really believe in the Bible usually comes down to one of two popular disbeliefs: the big-bang theory and creation.
When you think about the topic of the big-bang theory our campus minister brought up a point that I have never thought of, he said:
"Can you tell me the reference in the Gospels, where Jesus taught about the earth being a specific age?"The point our campus minister (who goes by the name Patrick) was trying to get across was that it didn't really matter how it was created, God created it!
Then we went on to discuss the big-bang theory (...not the television show) and what the way of thinking is about that. The big bang theory all stems around particles being formed until...BANG! The big-bang happened and earth formed from that. What the question next to the big-bang theorists is "where did those particles come from?" The whole chicken or the egg debate has that subject covered.
Another topic covered is that the Bible has too many translations that contain many contradictions. For example, in the gospels they'll raise a point about how many names and the actual names of the people listed, saying that can be a means of measuring accuracy. But in actuality say you were at a party with a friend, the party happened, and the next day one of your friends who wasn't there asked both of you who was all at the party. Chances are that both of you aren't going to go down the same exact list saying the same people.
With all the rules given in the old testament totaled 613 laws in all. If you think anyway like I personally do you'll notice that is a lot. Every time someone broke one of the laws, they became infected. But in actuality Jesus came into the world followed each single law proposed in the old testament, followed perfectly, and sacrificed himself, becoming the cure for us all!
Our campus minister then told us to think of it like this. He said the law had been given to diagnose our infection of sin. People were dying because of sin and didn't realize why, which is just like modern medicine research. The disease starts to infect, make them really sick, you must be diagnosed, then a symptom needs to be found. God gave us law, our symptom diagnosis list, to reveal the problem. None of the sacrifices of animals were strong enough to take away that sickness. However, then God sent Jesus, Jesus is our vaccine. Jesus gets rid of the infection and we live.
So when we went to wrap everything up we were asked Why do we need Jesus? Answer: We need Jesus to live!
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