Sorry about the break on the blog – we’ll get started back here today with a great video that I came across. This is from an interview with Bruce Demarest, who is a professor at Denver Seminary. He’s addressing the importance of us having a personal relationship with God, instead of simply knowing a lot of things about God. We need both – we need to know what the Bible says about our great God, but this should not merely be head knowledge. We must make Christ the Lord of our life and have a personal relationship with the God of the Bible.
You’ve probably seen or read about this already, but my alma mater Union University was devastated by a tornado last night. There was some serious damage, and they had to dig several students out of the rubble, but thanks be to God no one was killed. You can see video of the damage here and here.
I’m posting this here so that we as a church can pray for this Christian university as well as all of those who were affected by the storm.
Recently we’ve told you about our new plan to reach out to our community, sharing the gospel of Jesus. Pastor Steven and I were trying to think about the best way to get everyone involved with outreach, so we’ve considered hiring a third party church consultant to help motivate all of us to share our faith. Here’s a video that tells more about one of the options we’re considering
