Weekly Sermons

Can Do Christians       Luke 17:1-10

“William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage…

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”                                       -President John F. Kennedy, Sept. 12, 1962 at Rice University

As we read the gospels we see Jesus challenge His disciples many times to do that which they could ______________ do in their own strength but that they can do through Him who gives them strength!

Can Do Christians practice the ___________________ brother principle                                                                          V. 1-3a

The word for offense is the Greek word skandalon (4625), from which we get our word scandal.  It indicates the trigger of a trap, a “trap-stick.” We are not to be the “_______________r” for somebody else falling into sin.                   Romans 14:10-13        I Cor. 1:1

Can Do Christians speak TO their brother, not _______________ their brother                                                                           V. 3b

 “The character of an absent person should never be discussed.”                                                                            -Augustine

Can Do Christians forgive as they have been forgiven        V. 3c-4

2 Parts of forgiveness…

Can Do Christians focus on the ___________ of their faith V. 5-6

Romans 10:17

Can Do Christians don’t expect ________________ for doing what they ought                                                                           V. 7-10