"Christianity: Boring, Untrue, Irrelevant"

Greetings!  Last Wednesday, I started my first week as a Alpha Table Leader.  Thought I would share the outline from our first week of Alpha entitled: "Christianity: Boring, Untrue, Irrelevant".  My buddy Zach asked me to post this on here. Hope you all are blessed by it!---Jerry
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Here is the outline of the lesson we had in Alpha:

Christianity: Boring, Untrue, Irrelevant?

What does Christianity have to do with life today?

Jesus answered, "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

1.  Jesus says. "I am the way."  He brings direction for a lost World.

* We were created to live in relationship with God.

* No human relationship will satisfy entirely or be completely ongoing.

Take Away Point #1

The only  perfectly on-going, truly loving relationship is with God made possible through His Son Jesus Christ.

*The whole point of life is to have a relationship with God.

2. Jesus says, "I am the truth." He brings reality for a confused World.

* The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important.

Take Away Point #2

Time will never end.

God is so great that we cannot begin to know Him. No one can begin to understand eternity. Job 36:26.

He has set eternity in the hearts of men. Ecclesiastes 3:11

* While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers two:
   Heaven or Hell.

*  Your relationship with God on earth will determine your relationship with HIm in eternity.

3. Jesus says. "I am the life."  He brings life in a dark World.

* Jesus said, "I came so you could find life in all its fullness."

* In every human being, the image of God has to some extent been tarnished by sin.

* Where we go "hereafter" is determined by what we "go after here."

Take Away Point #3
If you know Jesus as your Savior, you have no need to fear HIm as your Judge.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.  Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.  Galatians 5:1

Heaven is for forgiven people, not perfect people.