The Real Deal (intro)

This week, we started our brand news series called THE REAL DEAL. The theme of this series is authentic faith. So often, students make decisions for Christ, but their lives don't really reflect the decision they have made. The reason for this is that students don't really trust that God is THE REAL DEAL.

KEY PHRASE FOR THIS SERIES: If we don't believe that God is THE REAL DEAL, then we will never be THE REAL DEAL!

Here are a couple key points from the talk last night.

1. People are looking to follow a god who backs up his words with action. Our God has done just that. HE is the REAL DEAL.

We serve a God that can be trusted to do what He says He is going to do. He claimed to love us more than anything else in the world and he backed up those words with action...sending His son to die for our sins.

2. If we don't trust that God is the Real Deal, we are going to have a hard time being The Real Deal ourselves.

Being a Christian who others call THE REAL DEAL (someone who backs up their words with actions) starts with believing that God is someone who can be trusted.

3. KEY VERSE for this series: Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."

We finished by breaking into groups with different leaders and breaking down these verses. Leaders asked students about ways in their life right now that they are having trouble trusting God.

This whole month, we will continue this series, and I challenged students that by the end of this month, I would love to hear people say Edge students are THE REAL DEAL.