Sermon: Love Letters From God
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Psalm 19:1-14
(I began the sermon by showing the following video featuring Jeff Foxworthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxFqVQFvhvw - starting at timestamp 1:40. The following is a transcript of the portion of his talk):
Jeff Foxworthy agreed to do a small group study with the homeless at an Atlanta Christian Homeless shelter. He said: "I couldn't get them to talk because if they had ever been to church its - they don't participate. You just sit there and listen. And so I learned early on - OK, I gotta come up with questions.
"So, the 2nd or 3rd week my question was "what the Bible?" And all I was trying to get out of them was that, unlike any other book, that it was alive. That different things talk to you at different times. This is an example: I opened my Bible to the book of Romans, and I had 7 different highlighter pens. OK, so at some point I've been on these two pages in 7 different something else spoke to me.
"And one of guy said 'Well, it's just a book of rules.' And my buddy (chicken man) who goes down there with me says "Really? It's just a book of rules. It's just a book." And there was a trashcan he slid in the middle of the floor and he took his bible and threw it in the trashcan. There's just a hush in the room, and nobody was comfortable with it. This great big named Wayne gets up and goes over there and he pulls that Bible up out of the trashcan and says, 'Don't do that.' And Chicken man says "Well, if its just a book, why would that bother you?"
And Wayne says "Let me tell you a story. My mom died several years ago, and when she died, I got $70,000 in life insurance from her." And he says "I'd never had a wad of money like that before, and I lost my mind. I got 2 girlfriends, and we start partying night and day. But because you're partying night and day you quit going to work. When you quit going to work you lose your job." He got fired. He lost his job, quit pay ...
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Psalm 19:1-14
(I began the sermon by showing the following video featuring Jeff Foxworthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxFqVQFvhvw - starting at timestamp 1:40. The following is a transcript of the portion of his talk):
Jeff Foxworthy agreed to do a small group study with the homeless at an Atlanta Christian Homeless shelter. He said: "I couldn't get them to talk because if they had ever been to church its - they don't participate. You just sit there and listen. And so I learned early on - OK, I gotta come up with questions.
"So, the 2nd or 3rd week my question was "what the Bible?" And all I was trying to get out of them was that, unlike any other book, that it was alive. That different things talk to you at different times. This is an example: I opened my Bible to the book of Romans, and I had 7 different highlighter pens. OK, so at some point I've been on these two pages in 7 different something else spoke to me.
"And one of guy said 'Well, it's just a book of rules.' And my buddy (chicken man) who goes down there with me says "Really? It's just a book of rules. It's just a book." And there was a trashcan he slid in the middle of the floor and he took his bible and threw it in the trashcan. There's just a hush in the room, and nobody was comfortable with it. This great big named Wayne gets up and goes over there and he pulls that Bible up out of the trashcan and says, 'Don't do that.' And Chicken man says "Well, if its just a book, why would that bother you?"
And Wayne says "Let me tell you a story. My mom died several years ago, and when she died, I got $70,000 in life insurance from her." And he says "I'd never had a wad of money like that before, and I lost my mind. I got 2 girlfriends, and we start partying night and day. But because you're partying night and day you quit going to work. When you quit going to work you lose your job." He got fired. He lost his job, quit pay ...
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