Wednesday night class:

AN EXAMINATION

The Da Vinci Code suggests that

• Christ was not divine,

• He married Mary Magdalene,

• they had a daughter named “Sarah,” and

• the Bible has only the books that support

the myth that Christ is divine.

Although it is readily admitted that the Da Vinci Code is fiction, many are accepting the suppositions of the book/movie as Truth.

The Mentor church of Christ will present a five-part series that will examine the basic points of the “Da Vinci Code.” We are excited about the opportunity to examine these new challenges to the historic Faith and invite all who honor Jesus as the Christ and the Lord to come and join us as we study these topics:

May 31 —  An Overview: Truth verses Fiction

June 7 —  Who is “Jesus”?

June 14 —  Who is “Mary Magdalene”?

June 21 —  The integrity of the Bible: Do we have all the books of the Bible?

June 28 — Facts That All Must Face About Jesus and the Bible

7:00 p.m. Wednesday evenings

Come and join us as we turn our thoughts to this critical study!

Sermon Series for the summer, 2006

The World and Church Adrift Series

* Appreciation to Phil Sanders and his book Adrift: Postmodernism in the Church

What makes Christians act as if they never knew God? What turns values upside down as if God had never spoken about right and wrong? What makes it wrong to speak against sin? Why do people think they can make up their own religion? Why is it regardless of what people say, everybody thinks it is right? How can everybody be right?

These questions are easier to ask than they are to answer. The winds of change seem to be blowing us away from our moorings. It seems the things of God, which are so familiar, are vaguely disappearing behind us. Many of our friends and family in the church are moving into unchartered waters that confuse, surprise, and alarm us.

It should not surprise us that the mindset of the world does not match the mindset of God as it is presented in the Scriptures. After all, the world is worldly, and God is not!

Listen to what Isaiah said long ago:

(Isaiah 55:8-9)  ""For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. {9} "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

The world will not accept the thinking or judgments of God. The world serves the god of this world who is hostile in mind to God and Christ.

(John 3:19-21)  "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. {20} Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. {21} But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.""