COME HOME

Important Announcement:
We will not meet this Wednesday, November 11th. We encourage you to attend the church-wide Veterans program. We will meet again on                                       Wednesday, November 18th.

How to Get the Most From This Study
Attend each group session
Watch DVD teaching
Participate in the group discussion
Complete the content in the Bible Study Book
Before the next meeting: Read the daily lessons and complete the learning activities. 
Ask God to show you how to bring home the wanderers you know
Ask God to show you ways you've wandered from His truth

Viewers' Guide
Session 3
The Doubtful Wanderer: Come Home

Scriptures:* Hebrews 11:6 * John 20:24-25 * John 14:5 * John 11:16* John 20:26-27 *

Sometimes people find it difficult to admit at church that they have doubts.

KINDS OF DOUBTERS

1. The empirical doubter: believing would require information I don’t have.

• Is it information you don't have...... or don't want?
•  Areas of attack for the empirical doubter: evidence for the existence of God , for creation versus evolution, for miracles , for the reliability and the miraculous nature of the Bible

2. The disillusioned doubter: believing would require conclusions I don’t see.

• The key is the “Problem of Evil: If God is good, why is there suffering in the world?”
•  God prefers the sincere worship of those who choose Him to the robotic worship of the masses.
• All of the pain, heartache, and suffering in this world are the result of people not choosing God.

3. The disappointed doubter: believing would require forgiveness I don’t desire. 

• Forgiveness is the decision to release a person from the obligation that resulted when they injured you.

4. The moral doubter: believing would require changes I don’t want.

BUILDING THE FIRE OF FAITH

1. Faith is dead when the heart is passive. 

• Complaining about persistent doubts, if you are never in the place where faith is built, is like complaining about the darkness in your basement under a blanket with the lights off.
• Where faith flourishes: in the Word of God (Rom 10:17), in friendship with people of faith (Heb 10:24), in the household of God (Heb 10:25)

2. Faith is kindled when the heart identifies the obstacle. 

• God will go a long way in revealing Himself to a person who really wants to know.

3. Faith is sparked when the Lord reveals Himself at our point of need.

4. Faith is ignited when the heart submits to the revelation.

5. Faith is ablaze when it comes before seeing.