Talks With Jesus

TALKS WITH JESUS
Discovering who He was through the conversations He had
a seven mile road preaching series beginning fall 2009

You’re joining us at a pretty exciting time in the life of our community. Beginning this fall, for the first time ever, our new church will gather for weekly corporate worship services. That also means we’ll kick off our first ever preaching series. We have a commitment to gathering weekly and hearing from God through His Scriptures that they might inform and transform us. So where do we begin?

Jesus.

What better way to launch our church than to spend our first season together looking at the person and work of Jesus? If life, eternity, history, redemption all hinge upon who Jesus was and what He did, then there is no more important question for a person or community to answer than this: who is Jesus?

While all of Scripture ultimately points to Christ, the Gospels do so in a unique way. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each tell the story of Jesus, the carpenter’s son turned itinerant preacher, who was crucified on a cross outside of Jerusalem and then raised to life on the third day. In the process of telling their story, the Gospel writers included many conversations that Jesus had with different people in His life. In these conversations we learn so much about how Jesus viewed Himself, what His message was, how He felt about people, and what God had sent him to accomplish. These conversations help us to discover who He is, and consequently who we are.

So for the next few months we are going to preach the conversations of Christ. We will move somewhat chronologically through Jesus’ life, considering important conversations along the way. We want to see Him with fresh eyes and hear Him with fresh ears. Jesus is the gospel, and as a gospel-centered church we should always be growing in our knowledge of our Savior. But just listening to a sermon series is not enough. We want to respond to what we hear with repentance, faith, and obedience. Our prayer is that in hearing Jesus’ words to others we would hear them for ourselves and be transformed.

It’s a huge joy to start this journey with you. May God use this series to launch us into admiring, respecting, adoring, loving, believing, serving, and worshipping Jesus.