Today I want to deal with some of the fundamentals of our faith. You may leave here saying, “Pastor, I already knew those things.” Perhaps, but I’ve learned that people can hear something many times, but not have it really connect to their lives. Besides, as we all know, communication is a tricky thing.

I heard about a disappointed soft drink salesman who returned from his assignment in the Middle East. His boss asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”

The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very sure to make a good sales pitch as our product was virtually unknown there. I didn’t know how to speak Arabic, so I planned to convey the message through three posters. My first poster was a man crawling through the hot desert sand, totally exhausted. In t…