WHAT DO YOU STAND ON?
ON WHAT IS YOUR LIFE BASED?
WHAT IS YOUR MORAL COMPASS?
WHAT ANCHORS YOU?
WHAT GALVANIZES YOUR SPIRIT & SOUL IN HEAVY STORMS?
BEDROCK
- Solid rock underlying loose soil deposits
- JESUS
- GOD WITH SKIN ON
- ALPHA & OMEGA | BEGINNING AND THE END
- WITHOUT THE PERSON OF JESUS WE ARE JUST RELIGIOUS RULE-FOLLOWERS
- WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP, IT’S JUST RITUALS
- NO OTHER WAY
- John 14:6
- “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
FOUNDATION
- The lowest load-bearing part of a building usually under the surface.
- GOSPEL | GOOD NEWS
- DIFFERENTIATOR OF CHRISTIANITY
- HINGE POINT OF OUR ETERNITY
- IT IS THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR FOOTING
- 1 Corinthians 1:18
- “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
CORNERSTONE
- an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based.
- LORDSHIP
- OUR CHRISTIANITY DEPENDS ON OUR OBEDIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST
- OUR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL COMPASS
- LORDSHIP LEADS
- REQUIRES ADMISSION, SUBMISSION, REPETITION, and COMMISSION
- Romans 14:8-9
- “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.”