Many of the churches in a large metro area are advertising and participating in a program called “Explore God”. As billboards and promotional information indicates, sermons and discussions will center on “7 Big Questions”. This looks like a project that has been traveling from city to city, starting with Austin, TX, a few years ago, so it is likely that you will encounter it at some point:
Does Life Have a Purpose?
Is There a God?
Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?
Is Christianity Too Narrow?
Is Jesus Really God?
Is the Bible Reliable?
Can I Know God Personally?
These sound like excellent questions, and we may explore some of these as well in the future. In fact, Christianity in toto, with all its intricacies, texts, rituals, and teachings accumulated over 2000 years of existence, is an answer to these questions. My hat is off to anyone that can handle any of these questions in a single sermon or lecture.
In the meantime, here is a website for this program:
http://www.exploregod.com/resources-for-groups/series-the-7-big-questions<\a>.
By the way, as a caveat, I will say that I don’t know who exactly is “behind” this campaign. It appears to come from a nondenominational but predominantly protestant evangelical approach. Regardless of your background, these are questions that deserve thought, and I would hope that the “Christian” answers would be shared by believers of all stripes.