Fast Food Faith: A 4-week series helping students to establish lasting faith in a fast culture.

• Sermon Texts: Hebrews 12:1-2, Acts 24:24-27, Deuteronomy 8:2-3; Matthew 4:1-4,

  & Romans 6:16-18

• Series Description: Fast food is as much a part of American culture as football, freedom, and bad reality TV shows. Whether you live in a small town or a large city, you can pretty much find a fast food restaurant anywhere in the US. Why? Because fast food is convenient, quick, and tastes amazing. And in an increasingly fast-paced culture, those three elements meet the needs of many people who don’t have time to do anything else but run in and out of a drive-thru. But the American foundation of convenience, speed, and hyper-palatability isn’t the foundation to a lasting faith; yet based on our actions, many Christians would beg to differ. When we view our faith through that lens, we become spiritually out of shape consumers who view faith development as a Sunday morning drive-thru service that never inconveniences us, is quick enough to accommodate our increasingly overloaded schedules, and tastes good, but offers no real nutritional value to our soul. In a fast society, we end up living a fast food faith. But that’s not what God calls us to do. God’s desire for us in life is to slow down and live lives of intentional discipleship; to develop lasting faith in a fast culture.