11th Hour Contemporary Service
ACTS 11:23
Points:
I. Let the Grace of God put out the racist wildfires in your heart
Acts 10:1-16
Acts 10:28-29
Acts 10:44-45
Acts 11:1-3
Acts 11:12
Acts 11:18
Exodus 22:21
Deuteronomy 10:18
Psalm 146:9
Revelation 7:9
II. Let God's grace put out the moralistic wildfires in your heart
Acts 10:2
Acts 10:22
Acts 10:31-33
Acts 11:14
Acts 10:34-43
PICTURE OF VEGGIE TALES
Paul Visher QUOTE #1 (veggie tales dude)
Veggie Tales, "convinced kids to behave Christianly without actually teaching them Christianity.”
Paul Visher QUOTE #2
I looked back at the previous 10 years and realized I had spent 10 years trying to convince kids to behave Christianly without actually teaching them Christianity. And that was a pretty serious conviction. You can say, ‘Hey kids, be more forgiving because the Bible says so,’ or, ‘Hey kids, be more kind because the Bible says so!’ But that isn’t Christianity, it’s morality.
American Christian[s]… are drinking a cocktail that’s a mix of the Protestant work ethic, the American dream, and the gospel. And we’ve intertwined them so completely that we can’t tell them apart anymore. Our gospel has become a gospel of following your dreams and being good so God will make all your dreams come true. It’s the Oprah god… We’ve completely taken this Disney notion of ‘when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true’ and melded that with faith and come up with something completely different. There’s something wrong in a culture that preaches nothing is more sacred than your dream. I mean, we walk away from marriages to follow our dreams. We abandon children to follow our dreams. We hurt people in the name of our dreams, which as a Christian is just preposterous.
