God's Hard Precepts

How is true love for God defined and displayed? How much of our service to Christ is really a service of self? Have we as Reformed Christians truly reckoned with the substance of our sermonizing? Do we really believe and practice what we claim? Today's message is meant to focus our hearts on what true loyalty to Christ entails.

• Truly selfless service
• The Allure of Agnosticism
• The Two Great Commandments
• The Weeping, Reeling Apostles
• Trusting the One who is True

DISCUSSION QUETSIONS:

• If, according to Psalm 14 and Romans 3, “no one does good”, what are we to make of the seemingly good deeds of unbelievers?
• Why do non-Christians sometimes seem more zealous in their religious beliefs and loving actions than we do?
• Discuss the issue of mystery in relationship to God's self revelation. What aspects of truth does God not reveal to us? See Deuteronomy 29:29.
• How should we respond to the criticism that we as Christians can be “bibliolaters” people who basically worship the Bible rather than the God who gave it to us? Such criticisms come especially against Christians who hold to the doctrine of Sola Scriptura, who believe that the Bible is the ultimate and unequalled authority for faith and life.