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Series Overview

What will this series be about: How God recreates out of previous creation. How nothing passes away but transitions into a new beginning. This is true with churches.

What Felt need am I targeting? 

Cooperative ministry with other churches

What is the primary scripture or book for the series?

2 Co. 5:17

What is the “big idea” of this series?

Jesus promised us that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Then why are so many churches failing? It has nothing to do with conservative or liberal theology or preachers, it has to do with congregations being open to the new creation. Churches must recreate themselves every 3 years. Sanctification is a continuous process of change as the new creation is consummated as the second coming. God provides a way, it always involves change, and people don't follow God's lead, that's why churches fail!

How many weeks and what are the scriptures?

April 8 (Lent 4 Year C)

April 15 (Pent 4 Year C)

April 22 (Lent 4 Year B)

April 29 5th Sunday Ephesians 4:17-24

What books, articles, and/or pop cultural references speak to this subject?

What is the name of the series?

The New Creation

What are the creative elements?

Artwork?

Drama?

Slide?

Music?

How will the series be promoted with deadlines.

Flyer

Postcard

Social Media

Banners

Website

Video

Promotion Schedule

4 Weeks Out

3 Weeks Out

2 Weeks Out

1 Week Out

The Week of

4.8 New Life

(Lent 4 Year C)

Big Idea: Living into God's communal vision (Feasting, Homiletical)

Outline

Our point of View of Jesus has changed, no longer human

If we are in Christ we are now a new creation, reconciled with God

This all comes from God, a ministry of reconciliation

We are ambassadors of this reconciliation

We are made righteous through Christ

Media

Music

Hymns

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

This Is My Father’s World

O Day of God, Draw Nigh

Praise

He Is Faithful

Create In Me

Jesus, Draw Me Close

Other

4.15 New Everything

(Pentecost 9 Year C)

Big Idea: The old creation versus the new, we must persevere to do what is good till the new fully arrives.

Outline

The Flesh

it must not rule our lives

it's hard but persevere, don't let it have the last word

Do good, be ready for the harvest

Circumcision=flesh, not spirit, not new creation

new creation is everything

All believers and the cosmos are part of the new creation that is here, but not yet

Media

Music

Hymns

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath

Go Forth for God

Praise†

Crown Him King of Kings (Sharon Damazio)

Find Us Faithful (Jon Mohr)

There Is Joy in the Lord (Cheri Keaggy)

Other

4.22 Made New

(Lent 4 Year B)

Big Idea: Transition from death to life in Christ. We are a new creation.

Outline

We were dead (flesh)

sins and trespasses

Following evil

God, in mercy and great love we have been saved

made us alive through Christ

raised up with Christ

Seated with him in heaven

Age to Come, new creation

we may see "immeasurable reaches" because of Christ

We have been saved through faith a gift of God!

Saved by faith not works

We are now created in Christ for good works

This is part of God's plan from the beginning

Media

Hymns

Grace Greater than All Our Sin

Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed

Abide with Me

Praise†

Amazing Grace My Chains Are Gone

(Tomlin)

Amazing Love (Kendrick)

Mighty to Save (Story)

Music

Other

4.29 New Minds

Big Idea: When we were made new we were given new minds.The old mind was futile, the new mind is "renewed" in the likeness of God!

Outline

Get rid of that old self

The old way of thinking is futile

The new way of thinking is thinking like God

be renewed in the spirit of your mind

Media

Music

Other

General Notes of Preperation

LBD

A Pauline expression in and , which refers to (1) a believer’s ontological transformation in Christ, (2) the community of Christian believers, and (3) the end-time cosmological renewal and restoration.

New Creation As Christian Community

BEB

Concept of redemption developed throughout the OT and NT to its final consummation in the second coming of Jesus Christ

Wesley The New Creation

DPL

In Paul suggests that this future reality is already present. There are three options for explaining precisely how the new is to be understood: (1) through individual converts; (2) through the community of ; or (3) through the cosmos as a whole

New Creation as Community

There is no circumcision, no "membership" we were baptized in Christ's church. Not a denomination, not a local church.