Friday, June 5, 2015

JOHN

Good Morning! I’m John Branning the Lead Pastor of Central United

Methodist Church. At Central, we love it when new people come into our

community of faith full of questions. Life has a way of producing questions,

does it not?

I bet that you have had questions in your life also. Maybe you can’t figure out

why there is evil in a world created by a loving God. Maybe someone that

you loved very deeply is sick or has died and you asked God to bring healing

to the situation and you feel let down.

I refuse to believe that being a follower of Jesus means that I approach life as

one that has to grin and bear it. In fact, I find in the Bible that most of the

spiritual giants that we can read about had questions and they would ask him

for answers. Jesus doesn’t desire to be the God of the distant to us, he is the

God of the near. If you have questions that is great, God is big enough for

your questions. If you want a community of faith to walk with you while you

work out these questions, then I invite you to come to Central. You don’t

have to walk alone or hide your questions from others. Come and connect

and see what God can do for us.