Show Notes
“A gray area is meaning that exists between two extremes. This is an analogy to the area of color that exists between black and white. Gray areas result from ambiguity and rich variations that naturally occur in language, culture, events, information, objects, environments and people. The ability to think in grey areas is a basic element of intelligence.” - John Spacey
13 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
1 PETER 3:13-17
THIS IS NOT A SERIES ABOUT ANSWERS. IT’S A SERIES ABOUT FAITH.
For we live by faith, not by sight.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:7
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
EPHESIANS 3:16-17
DOUBT CAN BE A STUMBLING BLOCK OR A STARTING BLOCK.
JESUS CAN HANDLE YOUR QUESTIONS.
“MY TRUTH"
Postmodernism: the understanding/belief that there is no such thing as ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Truth belongs to the individual and is only experiential.
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
JOHN 14:6
JESUS IS THE TRUTH THAT EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR
“Many people had sarcastically scrawled, “Baby, don’t hurt me.” A few were philosophical and flowery, including a quote from Proust and on from Plato. But no one had a real answer. Not really. It was a simply question. Was that room as lost as I felt? Those pages showed nothing but an empty abyss, and I wondered if anyone really had an answer that would satisfy… In all our films, songs, and art, we worshiped love, but no one could define it. Really? This is it?… Years later I would read C.S. Lewis’s words that described what I experienced: “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”… I started to have a sense that there HAD to be a higher love that corresponded to my desire for intimacy.”
DAVID BENNETT
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
HIS WORD IS THE STABILITY EVERYONE HOPES FOR
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
MATTEW 7:24-27