11-12-08 Sr. High Misconceptions #2 Football!!

11-12-08
Misconceptions About Jesus Pt 2 – Football!!


Last week we started our series on Misconceptions About Jesus and Christianity.

What did we define a Misconception as?


What misconceptions about Jesus did we tackle last week?
1. Jesus wants to be left alone
a. He created us to have relationships – Gen
b. The doctrine of the Trinity – Luke

2. Jesus is too important to be bothered by people
a. He was always around people helping them - Gospels
b. It would go against His very nature – Matt


This week our message is entitled Football!!

Misconception #1 –Being a Christian means you have to follow rules and you can’t have any fun
People think that all Christians are these people who where ties and dresses, smile all the time and have nothing better to do than point at other people’s mistakes. Not True!!

1. “It is not about rules it’s about a relationship”
- When you get into a relationship with anyone (BF-GF, Friend, whatever..) What do you do? Most of the time, you treat other people with respect and love.
- If we don’t, what would happen? We would not have any relationships. No one would love us
- Same is true in our relationship with Jesus. Mark 12:28-31
- In our relationship with Him, we obviously want to love God back!! And love others!!
- We see that when Christ tells us to do or not to do something it is because He loves us and wants to see the best for us. So when we see that we should lay off the partying and sex, hatred and lying, it is not because He wants to put rules in our lives, it’s bc He wants to have a great relationship with us and knows that those things will hurt us.
- Maybe some of you guys here tonight are having a problem keeping up that end of the deal. You know that God keeps on loving you but your not reciprocating the love back to Him.
- So like I said it is not about rules it is about a relationship




2. “No Fun?”
- The voice of Jesus tells everyone that they are not allowed to have any fun, also when the guy comes in and Jesus tells him that he can’t love football anymore.
- People often think that becoming a Christian or deepening your Faith in Jesus means that my fun days are over!! Not True!!
- From my own personal experience, the best times I ever had was when I was Christian!
- But also, did you know that Jesus was a funny guy??
- 2 examples from His teaching
a. Plank in your eye and splinter in someone else’s eye
b. Camel through the eye of a needle
- Hilarious!!
- People thought that Jesus was this somber guy who went around never experiencing life’s emotions!! Not True
- Who did He hang around with? 12 guys!!! They had to have some kind of finger pulling going on!!
- Recap!


Misconception #2 – When you become a Christian you have to give up the things you love!!

1. In the Video, near the end, Jesus said that the guy could become a Christian by burning all of his footballs and never missing a church meeting

- A lot of times people think that they will have to give up what they love doing if they become a Christian
- Far from the case!!
- The Bible teaches that, because of this sin you and I have in our lives, we are cut off from God and we deserve to die and go to hell. But Jesus came to fix that problem, He died on the cross in our place for our sin!! So that if we believe in Him that he accomplished this, than we get to go Heaven!! We are Christians Ephesian 2:8-9
- Not only does the Bible teach this, but it also teaches us that when we believe in Jesus, we become new people, new beings.
- Because of this different things start to become more of a priority.

For Me:

- Part of my testimony
- The great thing is I still get to play and it is fun, but it doesn’t consume my life anymore.
- So it is not really a wonder why, if you’re a Christian that priorities have changed in your life, it is a mark that your growing in your faith.

Pray

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