Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

Bonheoffer’s once said, “Flight into the invisible is a denial of the call. A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him”

The Beatitudes end where they began, with the Kingdom of God and a proper understanding of persecution.

According to a 2004 study, Americans are getting 2 1/2 fewer hours of sleep than people did one hundred years ago. The Centers for Disease Control are now tracking this information; not properly resting can bring on Diabetes and Obesity. Forty million Americans get fewer than 6 hours of sleep per night. In the modern church, we think it is more godly to forget sleep and find more work, but God made us as He did to need to rest. God made us to be finite and fragile.

The point of the resurrection is salvation in Jesus alone; but part of surrendering our lives to Him means that we rest in Him. Jesus did not get out of the grave so we could kill ourselves, trying to run, and ultimately ruin, our lives. He rose so you and I could truly experience His rest physically and spiritually. He made us, we must trust Him to know what is best for all of our lives. Surrendering to Jesus means we also surrender our need to control our lives and learn to rest.

When your focus is on the person of Christ everything changes, everything is different, and nothing can separate us from that.

Larger Framework - Problems of the Biblical Position

Element U is to help give you answers, but remember that Jesus is bigger than this class and our attempts at

answers.

When we become a measure of God’s grace to this world Jesus says we can expect negative reactions; that it does not mean we declare a culture war or pick an issue just to get people mad at us, we declare Jesus and love others.

A look at Atheism, Jehovah Witness and notes on Mormonism.

Believers are especially equipped for peacemaking, and in doing so reflect their heavenly Father’s character.

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Scripture, why it can be trusted.

Inspiration: means “God’s breathed.”

Inerrancy - means the words are without error.

Infallibility - means the words CANNOT error.

Canonicity - means we have the RIGHT words contained in the Bible.

Archeology - means that the words have been confirmed through archeology.

Prophesy - the words have predicted future events accurately.