One of our Pastoral Interns from last year - John Tegart - reminds us that the only way to know who you are in Christ is to know the Gospel - fully. In a world where the Gospel is watered-down, changeable, and sometimes just presented wrong, how do you know that what you're hearing is authentic? Luckily, God gives us plenty of ways to tell. Listen as John describes how.

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  Several years ago, Burger King introducing a new product – "Satisfries". With 40% less fat and 30% less calories than their competition's fries, satisfries were sure to fill us up with no unhealthy side effects. According to the fast food chain, if we ate their new french fries, our weight would drop, our skin would clear up, our energy level would increase. In short, we would be truly satisfried. It was an advertising scheme built off the premise that we are all looking for satisfaction in life-why not find it in French Fries? BK, like thousands of other businesses, were looking to profit from our culinary desires by pitching the impossible. It was and is an empty promise but it doesn't stop advertisers from bombarding us with similar messages every day. We live in a culture driven by discontentment in search of one more thing to satisfy our souls (or stomachs), emphasis on "one more thing". We are not the first to deal with discontentment and the thirst for "more". In 1 Timothy 6, Paul exhorts his young ministry assistant to be on guard for the presence of greed among his fellow believers in Ephesus.

                                                                 1 Timothy 6:6-10

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Every conscientious follower of Christ eventually comes upon a passage of Scripture that raises a red flag. It stops us in our tracks and threatens to undermine our faith. One such passage is 1 Timothy 6:1-2. In past centuries, those profiting from slavery used these verses to support human trafficking. Ironically, non-believers also use these verses to dismiss Christianity for, how can you follow a God that advocates human slavery. Because the slave trade of Colonial America has left a deep scar upon our Nations' history and because human trafficking is a very real problem in our world today, it’s important that we study the Bible wisely and think carefully about this subject. In today's message, we consider the question: Does God Approve of Slavery?

1 Timothy 6:1-2

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