Tonight at Oneighty I'm going to help our students take a totally different look at Christianity.
We have this view of life that if we want to reach the top in sports, dating, school or money that all we need to do is do the right stuff and step by step we will get where we want to go. This view trickles into our view of faith as well. If we want to reach the top with God (go to heaven someday) we need to do the right things, go to church, be a nice person, don't cuss, read the bible and step by step we will climb the religious ladder and be good with God.
However, that is a totally wrong view. In Luke 18:10-15 Jesus shows us thru the parable of the Religious Leader and the Tax Collector that what you do, all our right motives, and religious deeds you accomplish will never make you "justified" or in right standing with God. Only thru Christ death on the cross will we ever be saved...and right with God.
Going to use a 15' tall ladder as my prop tonight.
Should be a lot of fun and a big eye opener for some of our students.
You can download this message on iTunes at "Oneighty Message Audio"