Speak Now - Week 2: "What We Will Be"
Today is the third Sunday of the season of Easter. Yes, you heard me right. We are still celebrating Easter! In the historic church calendar, the season of Easter lasts from Easter Sunday until Pentecost, which is still weeks away. So, Happy Easter, Resurrection people! This is also the second installment of our sermon series on the New Testament book of 1 John entitled "Speak Now." Throughout this study, we'll be focusing on what it means to not only follow Jesus but also how to speak about our faith in life-giving ways. You see, the problem that we have in our culture right now is that when someone says "I am a Christian," it's hard to tell exactly what that means. So many people in our culture have negative feelings about Christians and what they believe Christians stand for. It would be easier to just have a way to figure all this out. Maybe we should all have cards that we can carry to identify us...