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Welcome to the Iowa City Church sermon and teaching page.  We know that life can be confusing, and sometime just plain hard.  We believe the best way to live life comes through following Jesus.  These lessons and sermons are designed to be a resource to help you on that journey.  We hope you find them helpful!

May 9, 2022

The Trust Fall.  A simple, yet profound exercise in testing a person's faith in another.  This test requires one person to face a certain direction, looking straight ahead, not looking behind them.  A second person then stands directly behind the first person and tells that person to blindly fall backwards.  There is always a moment of uncertainty for the first person as they slowly fall, wondering if this second person will catch them.

To up the ante, have a person stand on a chair or table, and then have a group of four or five people stand underneath them, promising to catch them.  Then ask the person on the table to fall backwards!  It doesn't take long to see who is trusting and who is not (or who is a bit crazy!). 

Every day as we go about our lives, we are playing a form of "Trust Fall".  As followers of Jesus, we know that Jesus has some very specific things to say about how to live life; he instructs on money, possessions, sexual ethics, anger, how we treat people, serving other, forgiving enemies...and many other things.  The problem is that what Jesus teaches is often counter intuitive to how culture teaches us to live.  So there is this moment of tension.  This moment of trust.  Will I do what Jesus instructs or will I do what everyone else is doing?

In this sermon we will continue with part three of our study of James.  In chapter one, verse twenty-two says this:
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says." ~ James 1:22

Just like The Trust Fall exercise reveals our level of faith, so do these simple yet powerful words from James.  If you want to deepen your faith in Jesus, you do what he says.  Do you want to learn more?  Make sure and join us for another step in our series, All Day, Every Day.