Moral Conversion

All of us at some point playing a game with friends or family, whether a card game or a board game, have said, “Hey, you can’t do that.” Rules matter. The rules come with the game. They are written. Even when we adapt the rules, come up with additional rules, or suspend some there is an agreement at the start of the game that we are all going to follow the rules. So who makes the rules in life? How do we as Christians find the right rules by which we are to live? And, are we actively examining our lives to check for alignment, are we following the rules? Are we pointing that statement, “Hey you can't do that.” toward ourselves? Tonights message is all about a Moral Conversion. Moral Conversion means being responsible to cultivate habits that embody the moral warehouse one has embraced and to live according to a broader social responsibility (ref. Moses in Pharaoh’s House by John J. Markey). The Bible has all the rules, but understanding those rules can sometimes be complicated. And following them is not always our first inclination. So this series is all about learning how to become reflexively obedient to God. The Hebrew word for “hear” or “listen” is “shema” which is the name of this series. There is no separate word to obey in Hebrew because when we hear God, obedience is supposed to reflexively follow! A Moral Conversion is one of the five conversions of the heart that postures us in a place of working with Christ within ourselves to live a life of…Shema.