Study the appropriate texts below and ask yourself the following questions relative to YOUR participation or non-participation in what may be “liberties” – like:
A. Celebrating Christmas.
B. Attending a Country music concert.
C. Going to the movies.
D. Listening to Smooth Jazz music.
E. Dancing.
F. Playing video games (Far Cry 3)
1st – WILL PARTICIPATING BE HELPFUL TO ME? – 1 Corinthians 6:12… Romans 14:23… Galatians 5:24-25… Ephesians 4:27,30… 5:1,8-20… 1 Thessalonians 5:15-22.
Important Biblical Principles: Proverbs 21:2-3… 1:7… 4:14-19… 14:12-16… 22:3… Mark 8:34-35… 1 Corinthians 10:31… 13:1-3… 2 Corinthians 5:14-15… 1 Thessalonians 5:15,18…
2nd – COULD PARTICIPATION BRING ME INTO SOME FORM OF BONDAGE? – 1 Corinthians 6:12b… Romans 6:16-18.
3rd – WILL MY PARTICIPATION BE HELPFUL OR HURTFUL TO OTHERS? – 1 Corinthians 10:23-33… 8:9-13… 14:26… Romans 12:9-17… 14:14-23… 15:1-3… 1 Thessalonians 5:15.
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
