Be A Brave Adventurer Series

• and Washington mayor Vincent Gray called the chain “hate chicken.”

Now, we’d totally agree with Chick-fil-A. Our nation IS inviting God’s judgment because of the acceptance of gay marriage and homosexual unions. But that’s not all Chick-fil-A should be known for.

When the winter storm buried Birmingham, Alabama in snow last month – stranding 100s of motorists - the store manager of one of the local Chick-fil-A restaurants said “Our store is about a mile and a half from the interstate and it took me 2 hours to get there. It was a parking lot as far as I could see.”

She saw people stranded on both sides of the interstate, many of whom had been there for 7 hours. She went back to the restaurant and she and the other stranded employees cooked several 100 sandwiches and stood out on both sides of Highway 280 handing out the sandwiches to anyone they could get to, AND refused to take a single penny for the sandwiches.

After delivering the food and even helping drivers maneuver along the icy road the owner and staff took it one step further and opened up their dining room to anyone who wanted to sleep on a bench or a booth. Then, in the morning, they fired up their ovens once again and gave stranded motorists another free meal.

Why?

Why would they do this?

When asked, the manager Audrey Pitt said this: “This Company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model that we’ve all worked under for so long and the model that we’ve come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could.”

The employees of Chick-fil-A eagerly lived their mission.

They knew what they had to do when people were hurting:

They knew their mission was to take care of people… to love people …

Why? Because their company was built on Christian principles.

In the same way, WE should eagerly live our faith in such a way that people know that we not only stand for purity and good doctrine… but that we LIVE our faith in a mission to love others.

So, first – as Bold Adventurers - we are called to LIVE our faith

And… 2ndly – God calls us to be BOLD in our faith.

I Peter 3:14 commands us "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened."

This is a repeated command to God’s people. Someone once went through Scripture and found that the command “Do not fear” showed up (in one form or other) a total of 365 times. That’s one command for every day of the year.

As I was preparing for this sermon, I did a cross reference search on this verse and found:

Several times David wrote something like this: “The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1

Isaiah 41:10 declared: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”