CrossWalk - Cross Culture Church RDU

Real belief causes real action. That’s the fact we established last week as we started in chapter 3 of the book of Jonah. If we really believe something it will effect our actions, but what does our belief and actions cause God to do? That’s the question we're going to explore today as Pastor Clay continues this wonderful study in the book of Jonah.

Belief, it's a critical part of our relationship with God, but how do you know when it's real? Today we come to Jonah chapter three and the high water mark of the book. Today Pastor Clay is going to show us what happens when we respond to God with belief. The people of Nineveh were a godless people, but when the prophet of God obediently delivers the word of God, what happens next can only be described as a work of God. It's a  beautiful picture of God's grace.

Last week we learned in Jonah chapter 1 that when you run from God you'll lose that race every time. Today Pastor Clay is taking us to Jonah chapter 2 where we'll learn about how God uses adversity in our lives to draw us to Him. Even when we run from God as Jonah did, we find that God is a God of second chances.

This week, we start a new series entitled, "Jonah: Man on the Run." Most of us may be aware that Jonah was running from God and he ended up in the belly of a giant fish, but how many of us know why Jonah ran in the first place?  Over the next four weeks we're going to spend some time in the Old Testament book of Jonah to see what we can learn about our own lives and what happens when we run from God.

Last week we began our discussion on the last of the three dimensions, duplication. Today, Pastor Clay is going to continue his study on our responsibility to make disciples. We're going to be looking at a number of different passages that give us the various components needed for disciple duplication.

13 weeks ago we began a series entitled "Cross Culture in 3D: So Real You Can Touch It!" It’s purpose has been to help understand better what needs to be a part of our everyday lives, our everyday walk with Jesus if it’s going to be more than just something we do on Sunday morning. Today we come to the last dimension of our 3D series on discipleship and it's the dimension of duplication. As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, making disciples is the call of all of us who follow Christ. As we'll see from the Great Commission in Matthew chapter 28, it's more than trying to win converts. It's about trying to make fully-devoted followers of Jesus.

Today we return to our series entitled, Cross Culture in 3D: So Real You Can Touch It! and we come to the last discipline that we're going to explore during this series and it's the discipline of "going." As Pastor Clay is going to show us today, Jesus has clearly charged us with the task of sharing His message with the world, but most Christians struggle with the idea of sharing their faith. So how do we build in the discipline of going? Listen to this week's CrossWalk because Pastor Clay has the answer.

Today in this special Easter edition of Crosswalk, Pastor Clay is taking us to Matthew chapters 27 and 28 and the story of the resurrection. Last week Pastor Clay established the fact that Jesus knew He was going to die, but did He believe that He was going to rise from the dead? What about the soldiers at the tomb, the religious leaders, Jesus' disciples? Is there any evidence that they believed it? Most important of all, do you believe it? How you answer that question will determine your eternal destiny.

Today is Palm Sunday and we're taking a break from our current series to focus on our Lord’s sacrificial death. Pastor Clay is taking us to Luke 22 where Jesus and His disciples are gathered in the Upper Room to commemorate the Passover. Jesus knew He was only hours from the cross and so He taught His disciples to keep a new commemoration to help all of us remember the price our God paid that we might be set free from sin and death. The Lord's Supper isn't a ceremony or a ritual, it's a time of deep reflection and appreciation for what God did for us.

Last week Pastor Clay began to show us from Romans chapter 12 the importance of the discipline of service. Because of time restraints we weren’t able to finish and so Pastor Clay is going to go back to Romans 12 today to wrap up the Apostle Paul’s instructions for the body of Christ and our service to each other. From there, Pastor Clay is going to take us to John chapter 13 and the fascinating account of Jesus washing His disciples' feet and the lessons we can all elarn from that as we seek to honor our Lord through the discipline of service.