SERMON NOTES

Hard Questions

Can We Trust the Church? 

Text: Luke 10:25-37

There is a  inside every Christian because we are made in the image of God and he is a just God.

We can't possibly  and  His bride.

The  that emanates from the church right now, as much as any other, is that we can do all of the religious things, and miss the  in front of us. (Romans 7:15, 19)

But these injustices, these are not a defining characteristic of what the church HAS been or WILL be.  They are a  of a  that exists in us because we are too quick to forget the gospel.

Our grasp of the gospel almost always shows itself in how we  the  around us.

And whenever men and women remember who God is, what he has done for us, and what he calls us to do in loving people, they rise up against in justice both inside and outside of the  of the .

We must do....

Playing a role in combatting injustice in the world will always