West Cocoa Chat

This is a picture of Joe Beam. He is conducting his 2 day seminar at our church called "Love, Sex, and Marriage." How would that have been for a catchy blog title? The title I used (“A Known Sinner”) comes from a story that I heard Joe tell at one of the Pepperdine Lectures. The gruesome details are somewhat foggy but I do remember him telling either about a preacher or a publication (Brotherhood porn as Mike Cope called it in one of his blogs) that labeled him as a “known sinner.” I think he was at some seminar or lecture when word of this came to him. He apparently went around for the rest of the seminar or lecture wearing a name tag with his name and that moniker.

We’re excited about this weekend’s seminar with Joe. We have over 100 couples committed to spend $65 of their own money and give up their Friday evening and their Saturday to hear what Joe has to say on this important topic. I know there is a tendency to snicker (and I would count myself as a “known snicker”) when you read his seminar’s title, (Love, Sex, and Marriage) but I really do feel this seminar could make an impact on the health of our church. Especially when you consider that depending upon who you get your statistics from, the divorce rate among Christians is at the very least, the same as non-Christians and some number crunchers report a slightly higher rate among Christians vs. non-Christians.

In my short tenure as an elder, I have seen divorce hit families that some would say, “We saw that one coming,” and then I’ve seen divorce creep into what I considered to be a “strong marriage.” So I ask you to pray for our church family this weekend as well as the many visitors that we’ll receive as well. May God bless and anoint Joe as he attempts to spur us on to having Godly marriages.

Have a good weekend bloggers.

Don’t forget to pray for Keith’s family and especially his son Brandon.