The Great News About The Good News

This morning as we continue on in Acts 15 we are

looking at the most important question ever posed to

the human race is “what must I do in order to be

saved?” After numerous discussions that began

right after church ended last week I feel somewhat

like the guy who was auditioning at a church who

was in search of a new pastor after their previous

pastor retired. The pastor was invited to come teach

a Sunday morning message. The message was so

well received the search committee invited the

pastor back for the Sunday night service where he

preached the same message he had given Sunday

morning. It was good but the search committee

thought well maybe we didn’t give him enough time

to prepare. Let’s invite him back for the midweek

service. So they did and on Wednesday night the

pastor preached the same exact message he had

the previous Sunday morning and Sunday night. So

after the service they invited the pastor to a review

meeting and the head of the search committee

spoke saying,

“pastor we loved your sermon on

Sunday morning and when you preached the same

message on Sunday night we thought you did so

because you didn’t have time to prepare so we

invited you back to the Wednesday night service

and now you preach the same exact message

again. No offense, the message was good but we

need to know is that only message you have to

teach. The pastor responded “By no means is that

my only sermon. I have hundreds of sermons

prepared. I just determined that until the church put

into practice what I was teaching on Sunday

morning I would just keep preaching the same

message over and over until they do and then I will

move on to another sermon.”