October 8, 2016 - Church at Worship

Sermon: "The Uneasy Life" (All-Sufficient Savior Part 3 of 7) by Randy Roberts

Pastoral Welcome: Tyler Stewart

Child Dedication: Ameliah Janette Najera

Children’s Feature: Roy Ice

Scripture Reading: John 10:1-6 Anastasia Haddad and Chelsea Mensink

Sermon Notes: There are many doors in life. Front doors. Back doors. Wooden doors. Steel doors. Open doors. Closed doors. Doors of opportunity. Doors to the future. And those doors take us to—or keep us out of—different places. 

What are those different places to which they can take us, or from which they can keep us? Well, it depends. Someone remembers when a door closed in their face. They knew in that moment that what they had long hoped for would no longer be possible. Someone else remembers an open door—an invitation to enter and take advantage of a wonderful possibility. Because of that open door, their life has been transformed. And someone else remembers walking out a door and never looking back. And they have been the better for it. 

The Bible speaks of many different doors. Quite literally, from Genesis to Revelation, we encounter doors. But of all the doors of Scripture, the one that interests us today comes from a claim made by Jesus. 

Our current series is based in the gospel of John. We are looking at seven of the “I AM” statements that Jesus makes in this gospel. In today’s passage, he makes the statement: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10:9. KJV). What did Jesus mean by that? What does it mean for us today? 

Please join me as we walk through that open door… 

Randy Roberts,

Senior pastor