Bad News (2 of 4)
Series: Headlines
Steve Jones
Acts 2
INTRO: Good news bad news for preachers.
GN: The women's ministry voted to send you a get well card.
BN: The vote passed 31-30
GN: The elders accepted your job description the way you wrote it.
BN: They also formed a search committee to find somebody capable of filling the position.
GN: Your women's softball team finally won a game.
BN: They beat your MEN'S softball team.
GN: Church attendance rose dramatically over the last 3 weeks.
BN: You were on vacation.
When is the good news bad news? That's the question today. We're talking about the gospel all month in our run-up to Easter. We're calling this series, ''HEADLINES'' because the word ''gospel'' means ''good news.'' But there are other appellations that apply to the gospel. Last week we noted the contrast between the good news of the gospel and FAKE news. It was an apologetics sermon - a defense of the historical and factual nature of our faith. We said that there is such a thing as absolute truth because God exists and he has the ''view from nowhere.'' We said don't get faked out by head-fakes. If you know you're apologetics you can rebuff fake attacks on the gospel. Then we cited some of the evidence that demonstrates that the resurrection of Jesus is fact not fake.
Today I want us to see how the good news is, depending upon your perspective, bad news.
I. FIRST RESPONDERS REACTED TO THE GOOD NEWS AS BAD NEWS
Let us set the context for the preaching of the very first gospel sermon (not by Billy Graham, by the Apostle Peter). It is recorded in the Bible in Acts chapter 2. Acts 2:1 begins ''On the day of Pentecost.'' In the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had three great pilgrimage feasts or festivals: they were the Passover feast, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of Tabernacles. Jews from all over the world would try to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for one or more of these feasts. For instance, the f ...
Series: Headlines
Steve Jones
Acts 2
INTRO: Good news bad news for preachers.
GN: The women's ministry voted to send you a get well card.
BN: The vote passed 31-30
GN: The elders accepted your job description the way you wrote it.
BN: They also formed a search committee to find somebody capable of filling the position.
GN: Your women's softball team finally won a game.
BN: They beat your MEN'S softball team.
GN: Church attendance rose dramatically over the last 3 weeks.
BN: You were on vacation.
When is the good news bad news? That's the question today. We're talking about the gospel all month in our run-up to Easter. We're calling this series, ''HEADLINES'' because the word ''gospel'' means ''good news.'' But there are other appellations that apply to the gospel. Last week we noted the contrast between the good news of the gospel and FAKE news. It was an apologetics sermon - a defense of the historical and factual nature of our faith. We said that there is such a thing as absolute truth because God exists and he has the ''view from nowhere.'' We said don't get faked out by head-fakes. If you know you're apologetics you can rebuff fake attacks on the gospel. Then we cited some of the evidence that demonstrates that the resurrection of Jesus is fact not fake.
Today I want us to see how the good news is, depending upon your perspective, bad news.
I. FIRST RESPONDERS REACTED TO THE GOOD NEWS AS BAD NEWS
Let us set the context for the preaching of the very first gospel sermon (not by Billy Graham, by the Apostle Peter). It is recorded in the Bible in Acts chapter 2. Acts 2:1 begins ''On the day of Pentecost.'' In the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had three great pilgrimage feasts or festivals: they were the Passover feast, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of Tabernacles. Jews from all over the world would try to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for one or more of these feasts. For instance, the f ...
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