THIS SUNDAY! Join Element at Ferini Park in Los Alamos at 9:00am for ONE Church Service In The Park! All are welcome. Help us Celebrate together with Old Days.
Aaron Carlberg - May 7, 2017
Three: Jesus Writes (What In The World? Part 2)
Today’s question is this, “John Chapter 8, which discusses Jesus writing in the sand, I thought to myself, “What in the world” did He do that for?” The truth is that we do not have anything Jesus actually wrote Himself. If you look through all of the Gospel accounts you will only see Him write this once (in John 8), and He wrote in the sand on the ground (which is a very temporary medium). The question that was asked was “Why” not “What,” which is good because we have no way of knowing the “What,” but we can speculate as to the “Why.” Our speculation should not be taken as knowing the mind of God; it is based upon Jesus’ character and His interactions with people.
From Series: "What In The World"
What in the World is all about those things in the bible that makes us scratch our heads and say, “what in the world?” Like when Jesus says, “Hate your father and mother,” or the Apostle Paul says not to “touch a woman,” it should make us ask, “What in the world is that there for?” During this series we will look at some of Element’s “What in the World” questions while also giving you a chance to fill out some 3X5 cards on Sundays or an online form here, to ask us your own “What in the World” questions. Next summer (2017) we will revisit this series and answer the questions that you ask us on those 3X5 cards. This is all in an effort to help us understand that when we run across things in the bible that are hard, there are still answers and we can trust God as we live on mission with Him in the world.
