For the month of June on every Wednesday we have our second annual One Word series. It is an opportunity for our guest speakers to share a word with you every Wednesday that will bless your life! The theme for this year is God and Your Ipod: The Playlist of Life. Each speaker will choose a song to present a message. So I decided that for every Sunday I would take a song from the King of Pop to express the message of the Gospel. The sermon series is titled The Gospel: According to Michael Jackson. The first sermon will be titled “We Are The World”.

The year was 1985 and exactly one year before I was born a song by the supergroup called United Support of Artists released a song for the purposes of raising money for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US. The group consisted of famous folks at the top of their game like Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, etc! And it was written by both Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. The lyrics to the chorus are as follows;

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

This song speaks about a personal responsibility to do something if you have the power to do so. I believe that a lot of us are in a position to do something about the current state of our world, but in order to do it the right way we must understand creator. We begin our Gospel series in week one explaining why we needed it in the first place.

When we speak about the Gospel we speak about good news! The word literally means GOOD NEWS! But what is so good about the news which we share in June 2019? Why should you be interested in being a part of it if you have already heard the good news? Why should you be interested in hearing about the good news if you have already obeyed? Because this Gospel, this GOOD NEWS is the only news that is intended for every human being! This is not exclusively for MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, or some other news channel. This news is to let you know that someone has come to save you!

The purpose of the first sermon is to show that God had an intention and purpose for creating this world. And we can and should live up to that purpose. We were created with a purpose and should live out the purpose of the creator! We will examine the first chapter of Genesis to see what God has to say to us this Sunday June 2nd 2019 at 10:30!