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Intro
at the shift of THX to Christmas—always struggle—THX under appreciated...
Doesn’t have the songs...
Doesn’t have the symbols… (tree at Rockefeller Center)
Doesn’t have the Sales...
In our nation, THX has a long and noble history—in some circles, greater than Christmas---certainly longer and richer than CHristmas as we know it today, but in a day when economy is king, it simply can’t compete...
THis issue bleeds into the whole dilemma we face each year of complaint about how commercialized CHristmas is while continuing to make great hay out of black friday sales and such...
What is there to do?
CF
It would be nice to know what to do about Christmas and commercialization and the loss of Thanksgiving--
but what if those things are only symptoms...
I don’t mean to treat them lightly—bleeding is only a symptom with a gunshot wound but I think it’s worth treating!
In this series, dealing with the fact that if we are to know what to do, we must understand what is
Last week--
How can you get well-meaning people to do the wrong thing?
Convince them that the wrong thing is the right thing—either directly or indirectly (right result)
*** Believers and non-believers aloke
So how can you deal with this?
Jesus--
NIght before crucifixion- talked, then prayed...
Part of what’s surprising to some—Jesus acknowledged that we live in a world that’s hostile to Him and to His followers
...
NO one is surprised at the struggle—CF 2Pac 2002- “Fame”—the struggle is real—poverty, racism
became a meme on social media- water bottle at fire extinguisher; empty toilet paper roll...
“teh struggle is real”
“oh no they only doubled my
Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato.
“the struggle is real
In TX- schools fielding issues...
[OTHER CULTURE / SOCIAL ISSUES]
*** Breakdown
DECONSTRUCTION--
brekdown language
highlight questionable intergrity
apply social pressure to sympathetic figures
*** DIVIDE CHURCH (sodom & gomorroah—sexual immorality / greed) (two sides caught up in social issues—throwing stones at one another)
BUT HERE, Jesus is bearing soul before Father—not praying that world’s hostility be taken away
Here’s what needs to come through--
If the world’s hostility is not our real struggle, then opposing the wold’s hostility is not our real solution
(neither exual immorality and sinful subcultures nor …)
*** The role of the church is not to preserve American culture- it’s to present Kingdom of God culture to America and every other nation
sometimes involves each os us...
but turning polit
*** as individuals...
don’t need to organize boycott if just develop a distaste...
don’t need to boycott if win peolpe...
Cf Ephsesus—got angry b/c lost business...
Sanctivication--
special reservation
3 elements:
1- separation
2- association
3- preparation for special purpose
*** all three—Jesus praying—why?
THAT”S THE STRUGGLE—I must let go of every former attachment...
BUT LOOK—teh issue for us today is how this works in our world
*** Snctification changes our character—separation, association, preparation—become whole and healthy…
** Sanctification changes our approach (to problms)
*** Abigail advantage
*** Sanctification changes our agenda
DEVIL went down to GA
*** Start living as sent people
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