June 22, 2013 - Church at Worship

Sermon: "The End-time Convergence of Life Changing Events" -Roger McQuistan

Pastoral Welcome: Donauvin Krause

Children’s Feature: Shawna Campbell

Scripture Reading: Daniel 12:1–4, TNIV- Natalie Hohensee

Sermon Notes: 

We all know something is coming, that something big is about to happen! We can sense it,
we can feel it, we can hear it, we can see it. And yet, we don’t seem to really know what it is!
Is it the insecurity caused by the near crash of the entire global financial system averted only
by six hours back in 2007? Is it the anxiety for our own safety living in an earthquake zone
that has been lying dormant for over 150 years, or in Tornado Alley where the storms get
historically bigger and more destructive? Or could it be that Daniel 12:1 is in the process of
being fulfilled? Are we seeing an end-time convergence of life-changing events taking place
that will in time, bring about “a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation
even to that time?”

Sir Fred Hoyle in 1964 put it bluntly: “We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary
physical prerequisites [necessary for maintaining a high-level civilization] so far as this planet
is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species, however
competent, can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is
a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The
same will be true of other planetary systems. On each of them there will be one chance, and
one chance only. (Hoyle, 1964)

Has civilization progressed to the point that it can no longer sustain itself? Could it be that
the only hope for the continued existence of mankind is the second coming of Jesus? Does
Christianity hold the only solution to the predicament the world finds itself in today? If so, in
the words of Francis Schaeffer, “How shall we then live?”
J. Roger McQuistan
Associate Pastor
Pastoral Care