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13Apr2009

This Sunday - What does the TEXT say???

I can't wait for this Sunday.  We will take our normal sermon time, about 40 minutes, and we will make it interactive by receiving text messages live from the congregation and answering them on the spot.  The beautiful thing about doing this via text message is that it allows the one asking the question to remain anonymous and this anonymity allows them to be totally honest and ask the questions that 'no one is supposed to ask in church.'  Those are the questions that we are soliciting, because I don't know of a question that you are not supposed to ask in church.  Our church, Radius, is a place of ultimate truth and thus is a place where any and every question is admissable.  So bring your friends and bring your questions, the hard questions about real life and real faith, and we will attempt to answer them for you.  But notice the word ATTEMPT.  The reason we are so bold in soliciting questions of any and every stripe is that we make no guarantees that we can answer them all . . . and if we don't know or can't know the answer to your question, we won't feel any shame in admitting that. 

The way it will work is that people will text their questions to a designated phone number, displayed on screens at the church.  Then one of our pastors will receive the text message and type the question up on the screen for all to see and for our other pastors to answer.  It is a radically different format we know, but we are into trying new things because CHANGE IS GOOD.  Things that are living always change!  Invite others and let's have some fun with this and trust that God will do some great work through it.  For those that are technologically challenged, we will have a way for them to submit written questions as well . . . see you there.

Reader Comments (2)

If God created the world then how did he create Himself? Was He already here before the world was created? How was He created?
April 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMark
Great question Mark. the law of cause and effect teaches us that every effect has to have a cause greater than itself. A watch as an effect has to have a cause greater than itself, a watchmaker. A car has to have a carmaker. A child has to have a parent, and a universe has to have a creator. But as you follow the progression back in time, eventually you have to have an 'uncaused cause', an eternal being that was not created. Without one eternal force or being or power, nothing could be in existence. THat is why the Bible says that simply looking at the creation of the world is a witness to us that there really is a God, a Creator. So God is on the only being in the universe that was not created but rather is eternal. Otherwise, if something or someone created God, then by definition, that thing or force would be God, then the question would be, where did He or that come from and off we go again. So God is the one uncaused cause in the universe,
April 15, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTodd

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