Developing A Contagious Faith- A Contagious Heart
Pastor Ryan Brown

Listen to Sermon: A Contagious Heart

Developing A Contagious Faith- A Contagious Faith
Pastor Ryan Brown

Listen to Sermon: A Contagious Faith

Guest Speaker
Comedian Charles Marshall

Listen to Sermon: Guest Speaker

Will be offered on Tuesday evenings beginning September 23rd and concluding October 14th. Classes run from 6:30 to 8:30pm (childcare will be available). Each class will be limited to 10 participants. Please register by September 12th. Pick up an application at Welcome Central.

I want you to take a minute and consider your faith–All of us need to do that. What does it mean to really follow Jesus?

“Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. ‘But not during the Feast,’ they said, ‘or the people may riot.’ While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, ‘Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.’ And they rebuked her harshly. ‘Leave her alone’ said Jesus. ‘ Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them at any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughtout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of here.’” Mark 14:1-8 (NIV)

Three Traps we need to Avoid or Three areas I want you to examine this morning:

1. Religion: A system of belief that rests in doing and knowing all of the correct or expected things, without a sense of life, mystery and relationship.

2. Busyness: This is the belief that the more I do, the closer to Jesus I get, the more He loves me.

“Brother Lawrence insisted that, to be constantly aware of God’s presence, it is necessary to form the habit of continually talking with Him throughout the day. To think that we must abandon conversation with Him in order to deal with the world is erroneous. Instead, as we nourish our souls by seeing God in His exaltation, we will derive a great joy at being his.” — Brother Lawrence

“Never tire of doing even the smallest things for Him, because He isn’t impressed so much with the dimensions of our work as with the love in which it is done.” — Brother Lawrence

2. Passionless Worship. (hindered worship)

“Sacrifice is best defined as total abandonment to God.” — Dallas Willard

“We also need to be faithful, even in dry periods. It is during those dry spells that God tests our love for Him. We should take advantage of those times to practice our determination and our surrender to Him. This will often bring us to a maturity further on in our walk with God.” — Brother Lawrence