Lake Community Church, Alexandria MN

We all need relationships with other people.  We want to share the good times with people we love because there is something empty about success when you are by yourself.  We need relationships in hard times so we can lean on one another for help and encouragement.  Relationships and community are the backbones of the human experience and the church.   
What do the writings of a king in the middle east that lived thousands of years ago tell us about how we should function as the church today in the United States?

Many of us are familiar with the words of Jesus in Matthew 11:30 where he says, “my yoke is easy and my burden is light”.  Yet, in Ecclesiastes, Solomon in his pursuit of wisdom seems to have a heavy heart when he says, “I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race” (3:10). I am guessing that you are feeling this burden as well and I am looking forward to working through it with you.

A hypothesis is when you have a statement you think is true and then you test it to see if it is actually true.  Fishermen do this all the time when they go fishing.  If the temperature is cold they might try a certain lure or depth to catch the fish.  They have an idea that they think is true about where the fish are and they test it with the type of tackle they use to catch it.
Solomon has a hypothesis about “life under the sun,” it’s meaningless.  In Ecclesiastes 2, Solomon is going to test his hypothesis by how he lives.  He had all the wisdom and resources in the world to test his theory that life under the sun is meaningless.