Some of you might be familiar with this fairly new TV game show that will quiz contestants on personal questions and use a lie detector to determine if they’re telling the truth. Contestants competing on The Moment of Truth will be hooked-up to a lie detector and asked to answer 21 questions without fibbing for the chance to win the $500,000 grand prize. Not surprisingly, the questions’ subject matter grows more difficult with each correct answer given and owning up to the truth becomes harder, as friends and family members watch from the studio audience.
Sample questions contestants could be asked include have you ever lied to get a job; do you like your mother-in-law; do you really care about starving children in Africa; have you ever stolen anything from work; and have you ever cheated on your spouse. Truth has turned ugly in the hands of these producers. It has reduced honesty and truth to a gaming commodity. In the show we see the ugliest side of humanity, how we are only willing to admit to the truth if we get paid for it. Many of the televised admissions to truth resulted in major shifts in each of the lives of the contestants. Their friends and family members had to make decisions based on what they had heard as the truth.
As we come to the season of Lent (started on Ash Wednesday, 10th February), we want to uphold the truth about Christ as the most important truth that cannot be bought. In the series, we are going to explore the claims of Christ anew and ask ourselves if the truth about Christ has indeed set us free. What will we do when it comes down to making a life-changing decision based on the truth about Christ? What will it take to make us live out that truth honestly?
This is a good series to bring your friends who may not yet know Christ. If they are open and have been wondering about the claims of Christ, let them hear for themselves throughout the period of Lent. May the words of Christ in John 8:32: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”, come true for us and all our friends this season.
~ Rev Tan-Yeo Lay Suan
“The Moment of Truth” PULPIT CALENDAR
February
21st – “He Is The Bread of Life”
28th – “He Has The Words of Eternal Life”
March
7th – “He Is The Savior of The World”
14th – “He Is Judge”
21st – “He Is Both Man & God”
April
1st (Maundy Thursday) – “He Is King”
2nd (Good Friday) – “He Is Righteous”
4th (Easter Day) – “He Lives Again”
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