How to escape the crushing busyness of life, Part 1 – The Problem

How many of you have heard yourself say lately “I am too busy!”?

How many of you have thought “I’ll never get this all done.”?

How many of you have felt like there aren’t enough hours in the day?

Remember how the Good Samaritan made time for the injured man. But the Levite and Priest did not make time. I want to repeat a few words from my sermon last week. “It would have been amazing if the priest or Levite would have stopped. But they didn’t.

People have speculated why. It is good to talk about because there are plenty of times when we could help out in a situation and we don’t. In our day, one of the major reasons we walk by on the other side, is that we are so busy. Our lives are so jammed that there is no time to be a Good Samaritan. Or at least we feel like there is no time.”

In fact one person has suggested that this is the biggest problem the church of today is facing:

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What do you think?  Is he right?  Do you feel the crush of busyness in your family?

Busy lives are not necessarily better lives. In fact your busy life and mine could be a huge problem. Our busy lives could be doing great damage to us.

But it is possible to make a change! In the next episode in Jesus’ life we’re going to meet two people, one who is distracted by the busyness of life. One who has made a change. There is hope for you. If you are living a crazy busy manic life, we are going to learn how to change, how to free up space.

So if you want to get a preview, read Luke 10:38-42.   Then join us at Faith Church for worship where we’ll look into this further!

Moving from “fail” to “faith” means learning to be a better neighbor – Luke 10:25-37

Last week I asked the question, how do we move from Christian “Fail” to Christian “Faith”?  While there are certainly loads of Christians striving to be faithful, there are many fails too.  Jesus once told a famous story to instruct us how to be faithful to his way.  The story is called The Good Samaritan, and you can view a wonderful dramatic presentation of it here:

You wouldn’t pick this up in the video, but as Jesus is telling the story, after he talks about the priest and Levite walking by their beat-up Jewish brother, when he mentions that next a Samaritan arrives, the people listening to Jesus tell the story would have been thinking “The Samaritan just showed up…uh-oh, now this beat-up guy is going to die FOR SURE!”

For years and years of hearing this story, we have made it so nice. The GOOD Samaritan. What a nice guy. But the only reason we call this the GOOD Samaritan is because the Jews considered all Samaritans to be BAD. So the Samaritan in Jesus’ story would either finish the guy off as easy prey, or he too would just walk by. That’s just the way Samaritans were.

Why did the Jews hate the Samaritan so much?

It goes way back into the time of the kings of Israel. Some mixed breeding was going on. Samaritans then created their own homeland, their own Scriptures, their own places of worship. Jews would go attack a Samaritan church, and the Samaritan’s would retaliate.  Let’s just say that the result was a hyper-charged hatred of one another.

When Jesus places the Samaritan in the role of the good guy in his story, you could hear people in the crowd gasp and maybe spit and vomit. They would not have expected that, and it might have made them angry.  It should make us convicted.

You know the guy who recently killed those college students in Oregon? You know how he said that he was specifically targeting Christians? He’s the Samaritan.

And yet, there you have it, that’s Jesus’ answer to the question, what does it mean to be neighborly? Doo what the evil guy did. Not because he is evil, not because of the centuries-old racial tension, but because he took the time to love.

We Christians can get so wrapped up in ourselves. We cannot get to where the Samaritan was, ready and willing to serve selflessly in a big loving way, if we are not able to serve selflessly in small things. So we can start small, work on dying to ourselves in little ways, and then move on to bigger and better things.

This Samaritan achieves a high degree of selfless love. He is not just opening a door, or saying please and thank you. Those are great things, but note that he is going well beyond what is considered basic care. Look at how his loving care for his enemy is described in verses 33-35.

No matter what was going on in the Samaritan’s life, he made time for the hurting man. No matter the long years of hatred between Jews and Samaritans, he put it aside. No matter the cost of money, he gave it.

So, who is your neighbor?  And how will you be neighborly to them?

Neighbors are not just the ones far away, but our literal neighbors. A pastor friend told me about a video introducing Christian writer Hugh Halter’s book.  The video was very convicting.  Why?  So often we judge and condemn our neighbors before we ever get to know them.  The Samaritan easily could have done that.  In some cases we might feel justified condemning our neighbors.  They might be making choices we strongly disagree with, and we are concerned that if we are neighborly, we’ll be misunderstood as though we are affirming their lifestyle.  So because we don’t want to be misunderstood as condoning their choices, we distance ourselves.  Hugh Halter’s video challenges us that before we condone or condemn, can we first practice friendship?  Can we at least open a door for God to work?  Can we love like the Good Samaritan did?

Take a look at this challenging video and ask yourself how neighborly God might want you to be.

 

How to move from Christian “Fail” to Christian “Faith”

The words on the by-line were “Christian FAIL”.

I use two phone apps to read the news: Google Newstand and Flipboard, which are free newspaper, magazine and website article readers.  Earlier this week a Flipboard article with that by-line caught my eye. “Christian FAIL.” I knew what it was going to be about. Something about how Christians were being hypocritical or ridiculous.

Sure enough.  The brief description said this: “A Missouri pastor is accused of stealing more than $21,000 from his church to pay off his 20-year-old mistress.”

Then there was this by a blogger: “A friend she spent years of her childhood in a cancer ward, and recalled her friends dying on a regular basis. She said ‘Christians would come in and read us books about Jesus, and say he was going to heal us. You learned real quick that they were just there to make themselves feel good. Kids still got rolled out of the room in the middle of the night, and you knew they’d never come back’.”

For situations like this and others, there is an impression some in our society have of Christians, and Evangelicals in particular, that we are not loving and have not followed the teaching of Jesus.

Christians are doing a lot of good, and there are many who strive hard to follow Jesus.  But as we read about the Christian Fails, a healthy response is to ask ourselves if we are perpetuating the impression that Christians are not loving, not following the teaching of Jesus.  No one is perfect, and we Christians need to humbly admit when we fail.  Because we do fail.  And when we confess, we need to renew our commitment to the way of Jesus, and actually do what he teaches.

This Sunday at Faith Church we come to what is arguably the most famous teaching of Jesus: Luke 10:25-37, the parable commonly known as the Good Samaritan.

How many of you could tell me how the story goes without clicking on the passage and reading it? I suspect lots of you know at least the basics.  We hear about Good Samaritans in the news regularly.  That’s a good thing, because Good Samaritans are people who help others.

The danger with something familiar, though, is that we will check out and not listen. And in this case, if we do not listen, we could be in danger of many more Christian Fails.  And yet, if we do listen as we should to Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, we’re going to hear him challenge our thinking.  So I ask you to do some hard work and read this story as if for the first time.

There is a reason we Christians have gained a reputation for not being loving or not following the teaching of Jesus. And maybe part of the problem is that we have checked this parable off the list, because we know it so well, we just assume we’re doing fine. But maybe we’re not doing fine. Maybe we can be encouraged to think about The Good Samaritan in a new, different or deeper way.  We’ll see how the Good Samaritan encourages us to move from Christian “fail” to Christian “faith”.

So we would love to have you join us at Faith Church this Sunday to hear more!

How to stop treating people as projects, Part 2 – People of Peace & Missional Communities

Last week I introduced my sermon on Luke 10:1-24 talking about how we Christians can be guilty of treating people as our own little spiritual projects.  While I don’t believe that most Christians set out to make people into projects, in our eagerness to see people experience what we think is so amazing, namely, following Jesus, we can go overboard and treat those people as projects.

But they are people.  And we need to learn to treat them better.  So in Luke 10:1-24, Jesus teaches us a better way.  The story is that Jesus is once again sending out a group of his followers on a mission trip.  This time 72 of them, two-by-two, venture out to heal the sick, cast out demons, and tell people that God’s Kingdom is near.  We learn from Luke that they have a wonderful trip, and everyone is filled with joy.

Maybe it went so well because they followed Jesus’ teaching of the better way.  Maybe instead of treating people like projects, they put into practice the instructions Jesus gave them.  What was that instruction, that better way?

Persons of Peace.

Here’s what Jesus taught them in verses 5-7: “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.”

Notice how Jesus describes the person. The person is open, receptive. It seems that God is already at work in their lives. On rare occasions we’ll meet someone like this in a passing connection like an airplane ride or a seat at a football game. But for the most part, they will be people we already know like our neighbors, co-workers, family members, or long-term friends.

I recently heard the story of someone who would pray for a person in their neighborhood for 6 months, then after six months approach them to see if they were a person of peace

Keep your eyes open for God to bring a person of peace into your life. Pray for them. Do you have a person of peace in your life?

When God is already at work in their lives, they are not your little project, but they are a person of peace.

Paul Mancioche recommends “the following steps where families can do this together:

  • Build predicable patterns of prayer & Bible, food and fun time as a family
  • Look for ‘people of peace’ (Luke 10:6) who feel called to join us
  • Invite them to orbit in and out of our rhythms
  • Disciple them to live in a way that passionately follows God, commits to community life and reaches out to others
  • Do this through shared lives and more formal times of processing together (which we call ‘Huddles’)
  • When they are ready, ask them to lead the same thing in their own homes

This is our 21st Century approximation of what we see Jesus doing in the gospels.”

Here’s how one church has implemented these principles:

Let’s be people of Jesus’ better way!

A post for Christians: how to stop treating people as projects – Part 1 – The Problem

If you’ve read this blog for even a fairly short amount of time, you’ve heard me talk about about making disciples. It is the mission of God’s Kingdom, and yet I have heard many at Faith Church talk about how you can feel very frustrated about making disciples. You agree that it is important, you believe in it, and you really, really want to be a part of it, but most times you feel defeated before you even start.

According to recent stats, our country’s population has gone from 96% Christian in the year 1900 to 73% Christian in 2015. You and I have a great heart and desire to see people become followers of Jesus, and yet so many aren’t interested.  That can create fear and frustration in our minds.

I think of one person who has reached out to a family member countless times, and that family member has responded with “Stop talking, I don’t want to hear another word about this religion stuff!” That is painful to hear, especially because we love our family and friends.  But perhaps despite our good intentions this family member has begun to feel like a spiritual project?

Or you and I might have a desire to reach out to neighbors or coworkers, but our lives are crazy busy, so that there is hardly any time left after we’re done with work and our family schedule. Most days we finish that up as the clock strikes 10pm, and we’re exhausted. Who has time for reaching out?

How many of you would love to reach out, but you feel like it is next to impossible? You wonder if it means quoting Bible verses, winning theology arguments, and praying out loud with people. And all of that leaves you feeling sick in the stomach, and defeated.  You know people don’t want to be your little religious project.  And you don’t want them to be a project either.  You want real relationship.  You’ve found this amazing thing that Jesus offers, and you want to share it.  But it seems to come across as a program.

How would you feel if I were to tell you that Jesus says that his mission is so different from that? How would you feel if there was a better way? A way that fits within the ebb and flow of your real life.  A way that treated people as they ought to be treated, as real people.

In our next section in Luke, Jesus teaches us that better way.  Read Luke 10:1-24 if you want a preview!  And join us at Faith Church to learn more.

How to get out of a spiritual rut – Luke 9:37-45

I asked last week in the intro post if you might be blinded by your assumptions about God.  Sometimes we can get stuck in spiritual rut, and in that rut we can’t see God for who he really is.

In the passage we studied this past Sunday, Luke 9:37-45, the disciples were stuck.  The nine disciples who did not go up the mountain stayed behind and were unable to cast out what seems to be a powerful demon.  Then after Jesus easily deals with the demon, he tells the disciples more about his coming troubles.

Jesus tells them about his coming betrayal. A change is taking place. We’re going to see it more fully starting next week. For three weeks in a row now, though, Jesus has mentioned something about his coming suffering. In Luke 9, he referred to it verse 22, in verse 31 and now in verse 44.

But the disciples do not understand. Its meaning was hidden from them, Luke tells us.

But why was this hidden from them? Is Jesus hiding something from them? No, he just told them three times. It is not so much that something is being hidden from them, as Jesus has been very forthright with them, but more that the understanding of the information, the meaning of the information is hidden from them by their own preconceived notions of what the Messiah should be.  They are stuck in a rut, blinded by their assumptions about him.

They saw him as a superman, with untold power, and put him on a pedestal. Everything he was doing was fitting with their preconceived notion, so I don’t blame them.

As the Jimmy Kimmel trick showed us in the intro post last week, we could say that the disciples thought they were looking at an iPhone6s, when Jesus is saying “no your views are actually the old iPhone”.

They were thinking bigger and better, when Jesus was about to lead them toward smaller and harder. Our society is enthralled with bigger and better. The way of Jesus is often smaller and harder. We don’t like to hear that. The disciples would not have liked to hear that.

Maybe they had an inkling of something wrong, a premonition, because Luke tells us that they are afraid to ask.

I have to admit, it would be confusing to be the disciples.   They have just totally failed at casting out a demon, but Jesus defeats the demon with ease. That would be embarrassing.  Then Jesus has just said “unbelieving and perverse generation” to them. That would be hard to take.  And yet he is still the same powerful Jesus, and everyone is amazed. If things keep going like this, the crowds should keep growing, and Jesus can eventually take the throne as Messiah.

But, no, he has some other plans.  To grasp those other plans, they needed to check their assumptions at the door.  They needed to have their preconceived notions changed.  They needed to pray what the demon-possessed boy’s father said to Jesus “I believe, but help me in my unbelief.”  The disciples thought they had Jesus figured out.  They assumed he was going to be a Messiah who would conquer Rome and return their land to the glory of Kings David and Solomon.  Jesus certainly demonstrated the power to do it.  They felt their beliefs about Jesus were right on.  And he is saying, “You’re wrong.  You’re stuck in rut.  You need to change what you believe.”

And that is where we need to examine our faith in Jesus.

We need to say prayerfully on a regular basis, “I believe, but help me in my unbelief…even when your plans might not be my plans.”

In this episode, I think it is important to see a correlation between the inability and lack of faith of the 9 disciples who could not exorcise the demons, and us!  Those nine had seen the power of God evident so often in the life and ministry of Jesus, but why could they not access this power now?

We, too, know the power of God. We read about it in the Bible. We experience it in our lives. We know God is the one true power, and his power is limitless, but how often do we feel disconnected from this power?

Jesus says that those disciples were unbelieving, lacking faith, disconnected from the power of God.  The demon they were up against, he says in Mark’s account of the story, “comes out by prayer and fasting.”  To access the power of God, to get out of their rut, they needed to practice prayer and fasting.

As do we.

They go together. Fasting enhances prayer. Fasting without prayer might be a good self-sacrificial discipline in and of itself, but it can enliven prayer.

I encourage you to look at those two areas of your life. Prayer and fasting. Are you stuck in a rut of seeing God one way? Are you stuck in a rut in your spiritual life?

Will you increase your prayer and add fasting?

And, are you willing to do this – knowing that His plans might be different from your plans. His plans are better – but, might not seem to line up with what we are expecting always.

Blinded by our assumptions about God?

Sometimes we get so stuck in a way of seeing things, that we can’t see them any other way. Check out this clip for a recent example of how stuck we can get:

See that? People were given a phone from 8 years ago, told that it was the newest version of the phone, and they couldn’t see it any other way. It doesn’t matter that the technology has changed a lot in 8 years, faster processors, higher resolution displays, lighter, thinner phones. Those people could not see any of that. Why? They were blinded by their assumptions. They were told they were receiving the newest phone, and that’s all they could see.

I wonder if we are like this with God. I wonder if we have him all figured out. But what if God is different from what we think?

Tomorrow at Faith Church as we continue our study in Luke, we’re going to find some people who think they have things figured out. They’re about to be surprised. The people are the disciples. 9 of them at least.

If you want to prepare for the sermon, read Luke 9:37-45, and we welcome you to join us at Faith Church.

Does God Still Speak?

Have you ever been in the middle of a difficult time, and you were agonizing over what to do, how to think, and you prayed “God, I wish you would just break out of the heavens and tell me what to do!”

If you’ve ever thought something like that, you are not alone. Most of us have thought that in a moment of frustration. Or we wish we could talk with God all the time.

In Psalm 4, the writer of the psalm, Israel’s famous King David boldly says “Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God!” I read that and I think, “Yikes, David, you better watch your mouth.” Maybe he is not demanding. Maybe he is desperate. And we can identify with that.  Often we are desperate to hear from God.

You fill in the blank. What life situation would love God to talk with you about? Raising kids? What to do about the future? A friendship? A job? An expenditure?

There are so many times when we wish we knew what God’s will for us is.  And we can, with David, cry out “Just tell me what you want me to do, God!  Answer me!”  Will he?  Does God still speak?  If so, how?

Sometimes we hear from him when we least expect it.

As we continue our series in Luke, we come to Luke 9:28-36, and through an unexpected and freaky situation, some disciples of Jesus are about to have an experience of a lifetime. One they would never forget. One they would write about years later, as if it happened the day before. They’re going to hear the voice of God. But what will he say to them?

Join us at Faith Church on Sunday to find out!

Are you infected with MTD? – Luke 9:18-27

Many are infected and don’t know it.  The virus is MTD.  What is MTD?  Read on to find out, and how Jesus responds to MTD. 

After allowing Peter to answer the question “Who do you say that I am?” with the words “You are the Christ/Messiah of God”, Jesus goes on to say two very shocking things.  First, he says that that he himself would die soon.  The disciples likely couldn’t fathom that the Messiah would die.  If that wasn’t astounding enough, second, he now says that if those disciples want to follow him they are going to have to enter the life of extraordinary commitment that he was living.  Take a look at what he said:

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.  What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.”

Being a disciple costs something, Jesus says. Remember that disciples are followers. They do what the master does. Are you disciples of Jesus?  You can evaluate yourself: do you do what he does. In this passage he tells them that his way will involve total self-sacrifice. Because that was his way. That is what he would do. And that is what he did.

Those disciples hearing him talk about this high commitment might have been wondering what he meant. All they had known up to this point, with a few rare exceptions, was a growing ministry and adoring crowds and miracles and popularity. If I were them, I’d be thinking, up to this point that it was awesome following him. Who wouldn’t want to, when things were so amazingly good?

So what is this business about him dying, and him wanting them to deny themselves, carry their cross daily and losing your life and Jesus being ashamed of them? He got pretty depressing fast, didn’t he?

If you are one of the disciples standing there hearing that, you could very easily be scratching your head thinking “Woah, Jesus, hold on. What are you talking about? Why so much doom and gloom? You have the crowds by the thousands following you.  You’ve got them literally eating out of your hand, buddy! Why don’t we focus on that? There’s good stuff happening, and you have lots of good ministry years yet in you. You’re the Messiah, so let’s just go with that!”

It’s pretty clear that the disciples, in this general timeframe didn’t fully understand. If you jump ahead to in the story, after another amazing miracle in front of another large crowd, he tells his disciples that he is going to be betrayed. Luke tells us that the disciples did not understand.

So back to his teaching above, I think it important that we see that this was not a teaching that went deep into the disciples’ hearts and minds. It wasn’t like they heard the teaching and instantly decided to give their all for him. In fact, we know exactly what would happen. Fast forward a year or two to the end. In the final days, he is arrested because one disciple betrays him. In a few hours after that another disciple, one of the inner circle of three, Peter, the same guy who here has just said boldly that Jesus is the Christ of God, will end up denying Jesus three times, saying I never knew him. And all the disciples will flee. Only John and some of the women will have the guts to show up to say goodbye to him as he dies on the cross. The lesson of unbelievable commitment didn’t seem to sink in very far.

So why would Jesus even teach it? Was it a waste?  Is it too hard? Too radical to expect that of your followers?   Too difficult to deny yourself?

Maybe Jesus shouldn’t set the bar so high. Maybe he was wrong on this one.

Let’s look at how this played out in the disciples’ lives. When those men and women realized that he rose again, things changed. Not to mention the fact that they hadn’t completely given up. This teaching did get inside them.  When he died on the cross, they could have all returned to their regular lives as fishermen and such. Many in the large crowds had turned away over the years. But those 11 remaining disciples, and the 109 others stayed true.  They stayed in Jerusalem, waiting, scared, but they did not give up.

When they saw the risen Jesus, when they touched the nail holes, they were changed. The seed of the message that he planted here in 9:23-27 that year or two earlier now grew roots and started to blossom.

They were not ashamed. They weren’t perfect. Jesus had to pay special attention to Peter, to restore him. But after meeting with the risen Jesus, Peter was a changed man, and never again was there any doubt that Peter was denying himself, taking up his cross daily, losing his life for the cause of Christ. No doubt.

In fact, after the resurrection, after being restored, after the Ascension, after the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, Peter could answer the question “Who is this?” with a much deeper, truer understanding.

And when he preached the very first sermon on that day when the Holy Spirit filled them, in Acts 2:36, he makes this bold statement: “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

What Peter now knew was the truth about Jesus. He was totally correct years earlier in Luke 9:20 when he said Jesus was the Christ of God. But in Acts 2, that truth had sunk down deep in and there was no turning away. What Peter shows us is that when we know the truth about Jesus’ identity, we freely want to follow him with full commitment.

There is a link, then, between the information of Luke 9:20 and the commands of Luke 9:23-27. When we realize the depth of what it means that Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior, the Chosen One, we will naturally want to give our lives to follow him.

And so we need to ask ourselves, Self, do you really, fully get who he is?

About ten years ago, a Christian researcher wrote a book discusses the main spiritual beliefs of American Christians. Just remember the letters MTD. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. Most Christians he said believe that.

Moralistic – God just wants me to have good morals. God wants me to be good.

Therapeutic – God just wants to be my therapy buddy. God wants me to be happy.

Deism – God is out there, but generally not involved.

That’s MTD, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. God wants me to be good, to be happy, and other than that, he’s not really involved. That’s how many people understand what it means to follow Jesus.

But scroll back up there and read Jesus’ words one more time.

We don’t serve an MTD God, and we don’t preach an MTD faith. Instead we say what Jesus said.  

Being a disciple of Jesus means full-blown commitment.

The tricky part is how to deny yourself, how to take up your cross daily, how to follow Jesus through the many facets of our lives.  What does a self-denier, cross carrier, Jesus-follower look like at the office, at school, at home, on the sports field, on the job, with your neighbors?

I urge you to practice this self-denying, cross-carrying, Jesus following with love, with humility, with abundant grace. Preach the Gospel, the good news of love, by doing deeds of love before you utter the words of the message of love. Do your neighbors know you love them? Do your co-workers know you love them? Showing that kind of love might require loads of self-sacrifice. Showing that kind of love might require the pain of carrying your cross.

Let us be a people that show we know Jesus is the Messiah, by doing what he did.

Who is Jesus, really?

After some arduous ministry, finally Jesus and the disciples got that vacation they were so longing for in the last section. Luke tells us that Jesus is in prayer, and the disciples are with him. He stops praying, turns and asks them: “Who do the people say that I am?”

I suspect Jesus he has already heard the murmurs in the crowds. Perhaps he has even overheard some from the crowd discussing this with the disciples. So far though it seems that this is not a topic that Jesus has brought up with his disciples.

The disciples themselves have been discussing this, as we heard about in Luke 8:22 after he calmed the storm in the boat. The disciples looked at one another wide-eyed, and asked the question, maybe mouthing it “Who is this?”   Were they wondering if perhaps Jesus is “The One.”

Then there was Herod a few weeks ago in Luke 9:9, hearing stories about Jesus, and asking “Who is this?”

But Jesus hasn’t answered this question at all. That’s not to say there haven’t been answers. There have been loads of answers.

Who is this? The one who calms the storm. The one who casts out demons. The one heals the sick and raises the dead. The one who empowers his disciples to grow his ministry. And last week, we got another astounding answer.  Who is this? The one who welcomes the crowd, even when all he wants to do is get away on vacation. Who is this? The one who feeds the hungry, the one who proclaims the Kingdom of God where in is the only place to find satisfaction.

Yeah, we’ve gotten a lot of answers. Few words. But lots of answers. Actions. They speak louder than words, don’t they?

If you think about it, Jesus has answered the question Who is This? Many times, over and over, with a resounding answer: He does things no one else can do.

But now he answers the question with words. And he goes on. Because not only will he answer Who is This?, he will also answer what we should do, what our lives should look like once we find out who he is.

Get ready for tomorrow at Faith Church as we hear Jesus’ answer to the question in Luke 9:18-27.