Saturday, February 26, 2005

Sin Without Spin

Tomorrow, my message is entitled "Sin Without Spin" and reviews Satan's efforts to "spin" sin as an attractive alternative to the boundaries established by God. The sermon will close with a call for Christians not to "spin" sin but to admit and confess our sin.

The message is the second in a series that is coordinated with our current Connection Group study called "Cross-Ways." The purpose of the study is to remind our church family of the First Principles of Redemption. The greater purpose, though, is evangelistic in the hopes our church family will invite friends and neighbors to hear the good news.

Last week, we began the series by realizing we were created for a relatioship with God. After 5 days of creation, God sensed a void with his creation that only the creation of humanity could fill. Humanity also has a void in the heart of every man and woman that only God can fill (Ecclesiastes 3.11).

With relationship with God established, this week we deal with when and why the intimacy with God was broken - in the Garden of Eden with the fall of man because of the deception of Satan.