How The Gospel Of Christ Is Good For Us

Last night we wrapped up our series on the book, Good News For Anxious Christians and reviewed the major points of the book. This blog post will be short and if you want to know more about what we talked about last night, read the last 10 posts. Also, if you didn't know, you can listen to all the sermons on our website. The link is http://www.hillsidelbc.org/#/media/lumen

The message of the gospel is that Christ has done everything for your salvation. We have a mixed up view that in order to be saved we have to do something. Pastor Bruce used the example last night of drowning. If you are drowning, by definition, there is nothing you can do to save yourself. If you could, you wouldn't be drowning. Christ saves us. He has done the work. You don't have to do anything. This is truly good news and why the gospel is good for us. Next week we will be video chatting with Phillip Cary. He will be answering "all" of our questions so come prepared. If you haven't read the book, you still have one week left!

Jeff

Setlist

Freedom Is Here - Hillsong

The Lord Regins - Gateway Worship

Sing Sing Sing - Chris Tomlin

Maker Of Heaven - Desperation Band

Unfailing God - New Life Worship

Why Basing Faith On Experience Leads To A Post-Christian Future

On Tuesday night Pastor Bruce shared with us about the importance of doctrine. Phillip Cary shares in the last chapter that much of what we based our faith on is our experience is with God. This unfortunately leads to bad doctrine because sometimes our experiences are good and sometimes they are not. For instance, if your life and what you are experiencing makes you feel like God is far away and distance from you, you could create a doctrine in your own mind that says "sometimes God leaves me" or "God has abandoned me". That is what our experience is teaching us. But we need to base our doctrine or what we thinking about God on His Word. In Joshua 1:5 God speaks to Joshua and says, "I will not leave you or forsake you." That is comforting news, especially when God "feels" far away. While we may feel like God is far away, He is actually is very close because he has said he will not leave us. Cary makes the argument that eventually all of the doctrines are lost when we base our faith on experience. We must dig into God word, so that when we do experience hard times, we know who God is, and that he is always with us.

Jeff

Setlist

For Who You Are - Hillsong

Your Name High - Hillsong

Hosanna - Hillsong

You Alone Can Rescue - Matt Redman

Came To My Rescue - Hillsong