Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask?

We all have been in that situation where we are asked a question about our faith setting up a great opportunity to point others to Jesus, but simply did not know what to say.  Our hope is that through this seminar we will be better equipped to respond to some of the tougher questions that people have regarding our faith.

Here are the details for the seminar:
Date:  Sunday, June 10
Time:  5:30pm
Location:  Mauka Lani Elementary Cafeteria
Cost: $5
Note:  No child care

If you are interested in attending this seminar please sign up through the form below. A staff member will be contacting you to confirm your registration.

Here is an overview of the series:

Week 1:  God

Week 2:  Man

Week 3:  Christ

Week 4:  Response

Our speaker for this event will Kris Brenes the wife of our Gregg Brenes the senior pastor of Grace Bible Church Honolulu.  Kris is the mother of 5 children and brings a wealth of leadership experience.

Here are the details for the event.

Date:  Saturday April 21st
Time:  2pm-4pm
Location:  3rd Cup Cafe & Venue

If you are interested in attending please RSVP to Roberta Sahagun at Bertasahagun5@gmail.com.

Here is a schedule of upcoming services.
April 22

May 20

June 3 and 17

Week 1:  Hope in the Resurrection

Week 2:  Hope in Finances

Week 3:  Hope in Healing

Week 4:  Hope in a Next Generation

After service we would like also invite you to join us for some food, fellowship and fun.

So what does this mean?
• It means salvation originates and begins with God.  That is, the gospel is not man-made.
• It means the gospel is eternal.  Created, finite beings cannot devise a plan for eternal salvation. (Although mankind has always tried to make his own plan for salvation apart from Jesus.)
• It means the gospel it beyond space and time; it transcends it.  In other words, the gospel is relevant to any culture in any age.  We don’t have to make the gospel relevant.

I think the last point is important.  The gospel doesn’t need to be made cool, hip, or relevant.  It doesn’t need to be dressed up and packaged.  The gospel cannot be bent to fit the culture, nor should it “emerge” into something “better”.

The gospel is the same yesterday, today, and forever – it’s ageless.  Let’s preach the gospel for it’s God’s power for salvation.  Let’s trust the gospel and not innovation to save.

“God does not simply create the gift (The Gospel) and offer it to us, if we will only climb the stairway to heaven to get it; he brings it down to us, uncurls our ungrateful fingers, and places it in our hands.”

To get something for nothing doesn’t make sense to us. We are wired from an early age that if we do good things, we get good things. We carry this mindset into adulthood.  But the Gospel turns everything upside down. The Gospel says we get what we don’t deserve. We get good (grace) even when we don’t do good (sin). This idea violates every sense of justice in me. Good people should get good things, bad people shouldn’t.

Through faith in Jesus Christ, grace is extended to us not because we are good people. We cannot stand on our own goodness, or our righteousness. No matter how good we are we cannot climb the stairway of heaven to access God’s grace.

God lovingly stoops down to us, pays the price for our sin, and does for us what we could not do for ourselves: makes us righteous before God.

So, we must repent of our badness, but we also must repent of our goodness (that is, our self-righteous attempts to gain God’s favor and approval).

And rather than climb the stairs, we must simply receive the gift by faith.

Week 1:  Jonah 1:1-6;  Running from God

Week 2:  Jonah 1:7-17;  Storm

Week 3:  Jonah 2;  Prayer

Week 4:  Jonah 3;  Mission

Week 5:  Jonah 4;  Finding God

Here is a plan for the next 3 weeks…

Week 1: What do we do when we are fouled?

Week 2: What do we do when we are fooled?

Week 3: What do we do when we are in a funk?