October 21, 2007

Worship through Song

 

Baptism

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Offering

 

Jesus is Just Alright

 Doobie Brothers, DC Talk

 

One Way

 

Message:  Pastor Scott

WHY Jesus?

 

Church Family News

 

Prayer

 

Any musical selections and/or media elements used in our services are for

illustrative purposes only and are not an endorsement of any artist,

musical group, film or television program.

 

 

 

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WHY> Week 6

WHY Jesus?

Why is Jesus the only way?

*Does God really care?

 

1.  God created us to ___________________(a)

 

Genesis 2:16-17(TNIV)

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will certainly die."

 

Genesis 3:4-5(TNIV)

4 "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman.        5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

 

2.  Nobody else really ________________(b) about you.

 

John 14:6(TNIV)

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

3.  Nobody else is ______________________(c) for you.

 

1 John 4:9-12(TNIV)

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

 

4.  God is always ___________________________(d)

Romans 1:20(TNIV)

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

 

Romans 2:15(TNIV)

They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

 

Does God really care about India . . . ?

 

Acts 17:22-28(TNIV)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

    24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.    27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'  As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

 

 

Answers:

a. choose   b. cares   c. coming   d. speaking 

 

 

 

 

Next Steps

  • Make a decision to invite God into your life today.  Then tell someone.
  • Join a Why> Life Group and join in on the conversation (Meets 1 more time during this series.  Sign up at the Information Booth.)

 

 

 

Sources: 

Erwin McManus, Lee Strobel, Jud Wilhite, Kay Arthur and quoted individuals

 

 

Recommended resources available in the CCM Bookstore:

The Case for Christ  by Lee Strobel; More than a Carpenter  by Josh McDowell; God’s Outrageous Claims  by Lee Strobel

 

 

Today’s message is available in the bookstore on CD or DVD. Streaming audio and videos of today’s message are also available on our website:  ccmonline.org.