I Am Advent Series
Churches throughout the world take the weeks before Christmas to turn their eyes toward Bethlehem's manger and pray for a deepening understanding about the meaning of God's coming to the world in Jesus. Two questions have always been at the heart of what we call "Advent Season":
Churches throughout the world take the weeks before Christmas to turn their eyes toward Bethlehem's manger and pray for a deepening understanding about the meaning of God's coming to the world in Jesus. Two questions have always been at the heart of what we call "Advent Season
- Who was Jesus?
- Why did he come?
At LAC, we will join the global church's celebration of Advent again in 2012. What we will do this year is listen to Jesus' personal claims of who he was and why he came into the world. Those claims create huge challenges for the view that many would like to hold about Jesus, i.e., that he was only a good, moral man who said a lot of profound things. C.S. Lewis made it clear that as acceptable as that view may be to all sorts of people, it is not one that Jesus allowed:
- C.S. LewisThe really foolish thing that people often say about Jesus is: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. ... Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse
What did Jesus say about himself? Many of Jesus' clear claims about his identity are located in John's gospel. The stage is set particularly well by the question some would-be Jesus followers posed in John 8:53: "Jesus, who do you think you are?"
I pray that when we hear Jesus' own words about himself we will see him more clearly, love him more, and follow him in ways that reflect his glory to our world.
To His Glory,
Dr. Greg Waybright
Senior Pastor
Advent Series Schedule
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I Am the I Am
Week 1■December 1 - 2
John 8:48-59
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Greg Waybright, Senior Pastor
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I Am the Light of the World
Week 2■December 8- 9
John 8:12-18
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Walter Alexander, Pastor of Adult Ministries
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I Am the Good Shepherd
Week 3■December 15 - 16
John 10:1-18
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Greg Waybright, Senior Pastor
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I Am the Way, the Truth & the Life
Week 4■December 22 - 23
John 14:1-6
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Greg Waybright, Senior Pastor
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I Am the Bread of Life
Week 5■December 24
John 6:5-13
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Greg Waybright, Senior Pastor
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I Am the Vine
Week 6■December 29 - 30
John 15:1-17
Saturday/Sunday Speaker: Jeff Mattesich, Associate Pastor of Children & Student Ministries / Jesse Oakes, Pastor of High School Ministries