Faith In The Valley

I told the church last week that Mayberry is gone and it’s not coming back. The little town and its lifestyle featured in the Andy Griffith Show is gone forever. In fact, The America of Mayberry has been gone for a long time. America didn’t change last November when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election. American has been in a state of change for generations. This change has brought to the US the decline of Christianity and the reality of persecution. For that reason, I want to take 2021 and prepare our church for this coming persecution. So for the next several months, we will study: Our Responsibility to One Another and our Responsibility to our community Our Responsibility to Our Government How to Test the Spirits How to Endure Hardship, Suffering, and Persecution How to Evangelize and Disciple When We are Not Permitted The Things We Must Die For In today’s lesson, we will set an important foundation for this series. We will establish a base upon which all the other messages must be built. And I w