MEN STANDING FIRM (1 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Titus 1:1-11, Titus 1:14-15
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Men Standing Firm (1 of 4)
Series: God's Blueprint for His Church
Jeff Strite
Titus 1:1-15
How many of you have ever heard of a television show called ''This Old House'' (the majority raised their hands). It is a popular home improvement show that is now in its 36th season - that's 36 years it's been on TV. It's popular because people are intrigued with how this team of experts take older homes and show how repairs can be made to different challenges.
On one of their episodes, they showed a remodeling project in San Francisco. The home-owners were remodeling an old church into a private home. When the crew went into the basement what they found shocked them - the central beam of the building was sitting on a one foot block of wood; and that block of wood sat on a 6 inch block of concrete; and that block of concrete sat on a half-wall along the foundation.
Now the reason this shocked them was that this is not the way to build a house. That kind of foundation would be unstable at the best of times, but we're talking San Francisco here. What's San Francisco known for? Earthquakes! It sits on a major fault line and is a major earthquake zone. Any kind of significant tremor would have dropped that old church building like a house of cards.
Now think about this: the church that built that building that failed to build their building on a firm foundation.
(From a sermon by Gregory Dawson on sermoncentral.com ''By This Baptism'')
This sermon series is called ''God's Building a Church'', and - as you might imagine - God is very interested in how His church is built. God wants HIS church built HIS way so that it won't be shaken up by the tremors of a world built on a fault line of sin.
Now that brings us to the book of Titus we're reading this morning.
Titus was sent by Paul to the isle of Crete to strengthen a church in an evil land.
In Titus 1:10-12 Paul tells Titus ''... there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especial ...
Series: God's Blueprint for His Church
Jeff Strite
Titus 1:1-15
How many of you have ever heard of a television show called ''This Old House'' (the majority raised their hands). It is a popular home improvement show that is now in its 36th season - that's 36 years it's been on TV. It's popular because people are intrigued with how this team of experts take older homes and show how repairs can be made to different challenges.
On one of their episodes, they showed a remodeling project in San Francisco. The home-owners were remodeling an old church into a private home. When the crew went into the basement what they found shocked them - the central beam of the building was sitting on a one foot block of wood; and that block of wood sat on a 6 inch block of concrete; and that block of concrete sat on a half-wall along the foundation.
Now the reason this shocked them was that this is not the way to build a house. That kind of foundation would be unstable at the best of times, but we're talking San Francisco here. What's San Francisco known for? Earthquakes! It sits on a major fault line and is a major earthquake zone. Any kind of significant tremor would have dropped that old church building like a house of cards.
Now think about this: the church that built that building that failed to build their building on a firm foundation.
(From a sermon by Gregory Dawson on sermoncentral.com ''By This Baptism'')
This sermon series is called ''God's Building a Church'', and - as you might imagine - God is very interested in how His church is built. God wants HIS church built HIS way so that it won't be shaken up by the tremors of a world built on a fault line of sin.
Now that brings us to the book of Titus we're reading this morning.
Titus was sent by Paul to the isle of Crete to strengthen a church in an evil land.
In Titus 1:10-12 Paul tells Titus ''... there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especial ...
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