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Hook
Inside Out & Formation
My wife and I watched a cartoon movie this past week called inside out.
I watched it before we had kids and loved it.
I think I love this movie because I love watching and learning how children and people develop.
But I will warn you watching it with children and without children is a game changer.
It was actually quite emotional.
The storyline is this.
Riley Andersen is born in Minnesota.
Within her mind's Headquarters, five personifications of her basic emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger — come to life and influence her actions via a control console.
As she grows up, her experiences become memories, stored in coloured orbs, which are sent into long-term memory each night.
Her five most important "core memories" (all happy ones) are housed in a hub; each powers an aspect of her personality which takes the form of floating islands.
Joy acts as a de facto leader, and since she and the other emotions do not understand Sadness' purpose, she tries to keep Sadness away from the console.
Riley Andersen is born in Minnesota.
Within her mind's Headquarters, five personifications of her basic emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger — come to life and influence her actions via a control console.
As she grows up, her experiences become memories, stored in colored orbs, which are sent into long-term memory each night.
Her five most important "core memories" (all happy ones) are housed in a hub; each powers an aspect of her personality which takes the form of floating islands.
Joy acts as a de facto leader, and since she and the other emotions do not understand Sadness' purpose, she tries to keep Sadness away from the console.
What blew me away from this is how her experiences helped formed who Reilly was.
You know we all have experiences and things in our lives that help form us and help us become the people we are sometimes for better or worse.
Today I want to talk about a different kind of formation.
I want to talk about the process that Jesus takes through to form us.
The kind of formation Jesus brings us through is called transformation.
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Introduce Subject
Today I would like to talk about transformation.
Formation
Transformation
a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.
synonyms:change, alteration, mutation, conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmutation, sea change; More
synonyms:change, alteration, mutation, conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmutation, sea change; More
a metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal.
FALLEN CONDITION FOCUS
People who confess to believe in Jesus but they don’t look a whole lot like Jesus -
Like a caterpillar going around saying I’m butterfly and i can fly and do all this stuff -
Imputed vs. Imparted - Actual Change
Lack of awareness of the work Jesus wants to do in us
Fire insurance
Heaven bound
Missing Out
My Hope
My Hope
Eyes Opened
Heart Encouraged
Inspired to Pursue Jesus
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We are going to look at a lot of Scripture today because it is loaded with God’s plan to transform us into the image of Jesus.
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So what is Spiritual Trans-formation and how does God want to bring transformation into our lives?
Define Christian Spiritual Formation
Christian Spiritual formation is the process by which God conforms us to the image of his Son
Christian Spiritual formation is the process by which God conforms us to the image of his Son
This occurs through the power of the Holy Spirit and by God ministering his transformative grace into our lives.
We position or posture ourselves to receive this grace through what Wesley called means of grace or spiritual disciplines.
Spiritual disciplines are not entitled access to the grace of God but posture our hearts and our bodies in a disposition to receive grace from Jesus if he so desires to grant us transformative grace for our lives.
As God ministers his grace into our lives we are continually conformed to the image of Jesus.
God’s grace manifests in and through our hearts and lives through both the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
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The gifts of the Spirit are identified in at least three different passages in the New Testament (, , and ).
The gifts of the Spirit are identified in at least three different passages in the New Testament.
, and ).
1 Corinthians 12:4-
1 Corinthians 12:7-
Romans 12:4-
After a person accepts Jesus Christ they begin a journey with God where the Lord brings a believer through the process of maturing.
Both and talk about the process of maturity.
But foundationally a believer must first and foremost know and experience the love of Jesus.
As a believe rests, abides and puts down their roots, using the language, the love of God is what enables and allows the believer to then live out action out of their state of being.
It is not by accident that in Paul’s letter many times his letters are structured first describing what Christ has done for us and the latter parts describe what we ought to do in light of that.
For instance, describes for us all that Christ has done for us and our new identity in Christ.
It builds to the climax of where Paul prays that they might experience the love of God that passes knowledge so that they will be filled with all the fullness of God and the power that comes from them.
It is experiencing the love of God that empowers the individual believer and the church to do the works God has called them to do.
The believer is then and only then enabled to walk out the practice of .
When you put the “ought-to’s” in front what Christ has done you end up with legalism and a whole lot of defeated Christians who feel like they are always failing God.
When you have the latter, you have believers who know their identity in Jesus, know they are loved by God and live out of the power that comes from that reality.
This is surely how God has called us to live.
After a person accepts Jesus Christ they begin a journey with God where the Lord brings a believer through the process of maturing.
Both and talk about the process of maturity.
But foundationally a believer must first and foremost know and experience the love of Jesus.
As a believe rests, abides and puts down their roots, using the language, the love of God is what enables and allows the believer to then live out action out of their state of being.
But foundationally a believer must first and foremost know and experience the love of Jesus.
As a believe rests, abides and puts down their roots, using the language, the love of God is what enables and allows the believer to then live out action out of their state of being.
Ephesians
It is not by accident that in Paul’s letter many times his letters are structured first describing what Christ has done for us and the latter parts describe what we ought to do in light of that.
For instance, describes for us all that Christ has done for us and our new identity in Christ.
It builds to the climax of
where Paul prays that they might experience the love of God that passes knowledge so that they will be filled with all the fullness of God and the power that comes from them.
It is experiencing the love of God that empowers the individual believer and the church to do the works God has called them to do.
The believer is then and only then enabled to walk out the practice of .
When you put the “ought-to’s” in front what Christ has done you end up with legalism and a whole lot of defeated Christians who feel like they are always failing God.
When you have the latter, you have believers who know their identity in Jesus, know they are loved by God and live out of the power that comes from that reality.
This is surely how God has called us to live.
where Paul prays that they might experience the love of God that passes knowledge so that they will be filled with all the fullness of God and the power that comes from them.
It is experiencing the love of God that empowers the individual believer and the church to do the works God has called them to do.
The believer is then and only then enabled to walk out the practice of .
When you put the “ought-to’s” in front what Christ has done you end up with legalism and a whole lot of defeated Christians who feel like they are always failing God.
When you have the latter, you have believers who know their identity in Jesus, know they are loved by God and live out of the power that comes from that reality.
This is surely how God has called us to live.
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