2 Timothy 4:1-5

Transcription : Acts 19:23-41 The Gospel and Idols So we continue to look at the book of Acts. One of the reasons we are doing that is because Acts shows us real and authentic Christianity. I’d say today to both Christians and skeptics of Christianity are both struggling a little bit to figure what is real Christianity. So often when I talk to skeptical person, usually when I talk to a person who is skeptical of Christianity, at some point they’ll say something like this, they’ll say, “I can’t be a Christian because I don’t believe XYZ,” and that gives me a chance to say, “I’m a Christian minister and I don’t believe XYZ either.” That’s not part of real Christianity. You have to know what real Christianity is if you’re going to reject it rightly. And you certainly have to know real Christianity is if you’re going to embrace it rightly. And therefore how do you decide that? Well, that’s a complex question and answer but, there’s no place that has, there’s nothing that has a great claim ...

Transcription : Acts 15:1-11, 22-29 Now the text we are going through the book of Acts and the text, Acts 15, isn’t usually preached about. I have very seldom preached about it, if ever, on a Sunday, looking through my records I don’t think I have. It usually is not something that people, we spend time on, I’ll tell you one of the reasons why: it’s a long, long theological debate. In fact you notice, we only gave you the first 11 verses and now we cut to verse 22. It’s a long chapter and it’s a very long theological debate. For modern people, a theological debate is boring . “Who cares.” Right? “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin,” that’s our attitude but I want you to see, that this particular theological debate teaches us four incredibly important things about the gospel itself, about the good news, about of the essential message of Christianity, the gospel. And it teaches us about the importance of gospel accuracy, liberty, community, purity . Gospel Accuracy First, gos...

  Transcription : So the first, this topic is “The Gospel-Shaped Life” and I’m looking at that and I’m saying, “why did I ever agree to that?” “The Gospel-Shaped Life,” that’s Christianity. That’s the whole Christianity. So, okay, how long do I have? So, however, I think the best thing for me to do, sometimes, is to give overviews. Sometimes, not the 30,000 foot view but maybe the 50,000 foot view of a subject as vast as this where you can’t drill down very deep into any part of it is nevertheless a helpful thing. So, to talk about “The Gospel-Shaped Life,” I think you have to actually answer four questions. I hope you don’t think I’m going to answer any of them thoroughly but even to show you what the right questions are to ask is important and to give you some ideas of what the answers are. They are important and I hope it will be helpful, too. But the four questions are, okay, gospel-shaped life, you need to know, what’s the gospel? Does the gospel shape a life or not? Because t...