First Light! Welcome To We Meet Every Wednesday. Join Us Afterward, Upstairs in the Café.

Speaker Schedule: May 10 – Jordan Lorence May 17 – Greg Gibson May 24 – First Light SUMMER SESSION (Room 2400 next to cafeteria)

SUMMER FIRST LIGHT Begins Wednesday 5/24/17 May 24 - August 2 MBC Room 2400 at 6:30AM (Located next to MBC Cafeteria.) Topics: - Beatitudes - Sermon on the Mount (Romans 12:2-3) Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. May 24 - August 2

Alliance Defending Freedom Today’s Speaker: Jordan Lorence Alliance Defending Freedom

Mother’s Day - Jewelry Sale TODAY!   Right after First Light today, at 7:30am please buy some jewelry from the ladies at the hallway tables. 100% of the proceeds go toward building a facility in El Salvador to protect & care for women that have been delivered from the evils of sex trafficking.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS – SEE YOUR HANDOUT FOR MORE DETAILS. Is it wrong for Christians to go to court?  Are they “demanding their rights” in a way that violates the Bible?    What Biblical convictions do you have that you would be willing to suffer loss rather than compromise those beliefs?  How does Daniel’s example of declining to eat the king’s food (Daniel 1) and to pray to God when the law prohibited it (Daniel 6) help us determine what Biblical convictions we should refuse to compromise? The Christian photographer, cake baker and florist have been or are being sued by their state governments for declining to participate in a same-sex wedding.  Should they be fighting these discrimination charges to uphold God’s design for marriage and not communicate something that contradicts it?  How do we determine what Biblical convictions we should be willing to suffer loss for upholding, and which ones should bend or make exceptions for?  What about other issues, such as drinking alcohol, or home schooling, or sending one’s children to public schools, or voting for a political candidate that supports legalized abortion?