Welcome ToWelcome To

““Life To The Full”Life To The Full”

Welcome ToWelcome To

““Life To The Full”Life To The Full”

Your idea of the Your idea of the good life?good life?

Who has it?Who has it?

There’s no such There’s no such thing as a thing as a

dumb question!dumb question!

Longing for the Longing for the good life!good life!

ElusiveElusive

The restlessness of lifeThe restlessness of life

Longing for the Longing for the good life!good life!

ElusiveElusive

’ It s always’ It s always been the same been the same

Solomon 1000-BCSolomon 1000-BC

2:4-11Ecclesiastes 2:4-11Ecclesiastes

““I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure … yet when I refused my heart no pleasure … yet when I

surveyed all that my hands had done and what I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless,

a chasing after the wind.”a chasing after the wind.”

Solomon - 1000BC

’ It s always been the same

Life to the Full Life to the Full . . . ?without God. . . ?without God

No!No!Jesus’ answer . . .Jesus’ answer . . .

Jesus and Jesus and Life to the Full Life to the Full

John 10:7-11 (Page 97)John 10:7-11 (Page 97)

““.. I have come that they may .. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.”have life and have it to the full.”

Jesus and Jesus and Life to the Full Life to the Full

The good life – The good life –

now and forever (v28)now and forever (v28)

Jesus - the keyJesus - the key

“… “… I am the gate for the sheep.” I am the gate for the sheep.” (v9)(v9)

The only way?The only way?

“… “… I am the way and I am the way and the truth and the life - the truth and the life - nobody comes to the nobody comes to the Father except through Father except through me!”me!”

John 14:6John 14:6

An extraordinary An extraordinary!c laim!c laim

TooToo?arrogant?arrogant

““A man who was merely a A man who was merely a man and said the sort of man and said the sort of things Jesus said would things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level He would either be a lunatic – on the level

with the man who says he is a poached with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the devil of egg – or else he would be the devil of hell. hell.

You must make a choice. Either this man You must make a choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. . .”madman or something worse. . .”

. . C S Lewis. . C S Lewis

Life to the Full . . .Life to the Full . . .

How can Jesus How can Jesus

be the only way?be the only way?

There’s no such There’s no such thing as a thing as a

dumb question!dumb question!

See You See You Next Week!Next Week!