River Community Church

We are constantly being lied to, and I think many of us in the world have become too lazy to discern what is true and what is false. Example #1, I recently heard of a pastor in Iowa telling his congregation that you get H1N1 (swine flu) from eating pork, that is not true. People are being lied to in the church. Example #2, I read an article about the current Health Care debates, the writer interviewed someone about the Health Care situation and the person said that President Obama was putting together Death Panels to decide if people were allowed to live or die. When the reporter asked the person if that was true, the person said, "That's what Rush Limbaugh said." Now I don't want to make this into a political debate, I want to make us aware of our current lackadaisical approach to what we take as truth. The next logical question should have been, "where did Rush get his information?" Too often we just take peoples word over doing the research ourselves. This is one of the major reasons of Martin Luther's reformation movement; we need to be more active in seeking what is true. We are letting other people feed us information without taking the time to look at the facts for ourselves.  Teens and young adults are being exposed to lies even more now than at any other time in history, whether it is on the internet, schools, radio, television, government and even from parents. We need to defend the truth, and help our youth understand that there is absolute truth and it is worth pursuing. The pursuit will not be easy; it requires time, energy, prayer, study and discernment. This is our goal for this school year in all of our youth ministry outreach programs. We are pointing students to the ultimate truth, Jesus Christ. We are encouraging them to seek the truth and to learn how to discern what God's good and perfect will is. This will be an exciting and very difficult school year for the student ministry outreach of The River Community Church. Join me in praying for these neighborhood students, and their families, that they will come to know Jesus as the way, the TRUTH and the life.