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I have a lens now by which I view the world. It's not the lens of emotion. It's not the lens of

culture. It's a lens of the word of God. Now I know how to see things. How to think. The gospel

establishes you.

Some comedians have stopped performing on college campuses. Why? Political correctness is more

important than humor. And on some campuses the biblical values we once held sacred are now considered

hate speech. Look at TV, curse words and innuendo flow freely. But traditional family values are

deemed offensive. Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us find our bearings.

The Apostle Paul and several contemporaries show the way.

Roman 16. We have a lot of personal greetings from Paul to his Christian family and friends.

What an honor it would be to be mentioned by name by the Apostle Paul in one of his epistles.

Especially if your name was Phoebe or Aquila and Priscilla and some other names will identify.

But it was not a good thing to have your name mentioned in an epistle of Paul if your name was

Demis or Alexander the coppersmith because they were mentioned as people who effectively had

betrayed him. So someone would come up and say, I have some good news and some bad news. What's a

good news? Your name is going to be known for generations to come. They'll be reading about you

2000 years from today. That's a good news. What's a bad news? They didn't have very good things to

say about you. Oh, well, he had some very good things to say about Phoebe. How many of you have

ever heard of Phoebe? Raise your hand. You know, she's kind of embedded here in scripture. Roman 16.

I commend you, Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church in Centuria that you may

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