Do the Word (2 of 10)
Series: Real Faith
Ryan Heller
James 1:22-25
People are asking, ''Is faith relevant in the 21st century?'' It's a powerful question. In fact, a survey conducted a few years ago discovered that 40% of all millennials say faith is not an important factor in the choices they make in their life. In other words, less than half of all young adults say God, or the Bible, or Jesus has some influence in the decisions they make. As a result, many people are asking whether the Christian faith is relevant. In the 1700s Voltaire, the French philosopher, predicted the Christian church and the Christian faith would be extinct within 100 years. You know what? We're still here, baby, 250 years later, we're still here.
The 21st century does bring on new challenges, and people ask a lot of questions about faith and what it means to be a person of faith. The book of James, which we're going to be looking at over the next few weeks, tells us how our faith can be relevant-how our faith, even though it is ancient in nature and origins, can be modern and new today. I want to encourage you to come back for each of these messages as we journey through the book of James.
Several years ago, the P90X workout videos came out. Who has a copy of the P90X videos? Anybody? Okay, one person. Today people are more modern. We stream workouts from the internet, but a few years ago it was all about P90X DVD's. The infomercials ran 24/7, and people were going crazy. Tony Horton was the trainer. I got wrapped up in those infomercials. I saw his guys with their shirts off, and all those six packs, and huge biceps, and I thought, ''That's me, I just have a little work to do.'' I imagined, ''When I have a P90X body, when my wife sees me with my shirt off, she's going to salivate.''
I bought a copy of the videos and put in the first disc. The first workout was so difficult I could hardly move the following day. Only an Army Ranger could have completed all the exercises ...
Series: Real Faith
Ryan Heller
James 1:22-25
People are asking, ''Is faith relevant in the 21st century?'' It's a powerful question. In fact, a survey conducted a few years ago discovered that 40% of all millennials say faith is not an important factor in the choices they make in their life. In other words, less than half of all young adults say God, or the Bible, or Jesus has some influence in the decisions they make. As a result, many people are asking whether the Christian faith is relevant. In the 1700s Voltaire, the French philosopher, predicted the Christian church and the Christian faith would be extinct within 100 years. You know what? We're still here, baby, 250 years later, we're still here.
The 21st century does bring on new challenges, and people ask a lot of questions about faith and what it means to be a person of faith. The book of James, which we're going to be looking at over the next few weeks, tells us how our faith can be relevant-how our faith, even though it is ancient in nature and origins, can be modern and new today. I want to encourage you to come back for each of these messages as we journey through the book of James.
Several years ago, the P90X workout videos came out. Who has a copy of the P90X videos? Anybody? Okay, one person. Today people are more modern. We stream workouts from the internet, but a few years ago it was all about P90X DVD's. The infomercials ran 24/7, and people were going crazy. Tony Horton was the trainer. I got wrapped up in those infomercials. I saw his guys with their shirts off, and all those six packs, and huge biceps, and I thought, ''That's me, I just have a little work to do.'' I imagined, ''When I have a P90X body, when my wife sees me with my shirt off, she's going to salivate.''
I bought a copy of the videos and put in the first disc. The first workout was so difficult I could hardly move the following day. Only an Army Ranger could have completed all the exercises ...
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