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I remember my Christmas low point… I was going for “Christmas Glory”
Five Teams:
Spiritual Life
Community Outreach
Dance Dance Revolution… and Heelys… Target had em both.
Target
Finance Ministries
Facilities/Transportation
Communication
Rob with a bloody nose… me without my jacket...
TEAMS… Monthly Meetings
I remember checking out that day thinking that was about the kids… you know — their happiness… their memories...
It was me drinking from the well of self indulgence in a season of self indulgence… and more than it cost me a coat or my brother a batch of blood… it stained my soul.
Bible Reading 2019
John 12:
2019 Preaching Strategy beginning Dec 30, 2018
Jesus’ focus on death-to-self so one can live to God.
Pull Out the Cards… Mention Bible in lobby
Pray
They longed for Messiah… the anointed one.
Death to self is when we look at the desires and appetites that run out lives and say “MORE!
NOW!” and quiet and quell them and surrender to the voice of God which guides and directs us.
Boats, patriarchs, liberators, laws, judges, kings, priests, prophets… none satisfied.
None lasted.
Death-to-self at to know God and to follow God.
You must die to yourself to come to know God.
2. You must die to yourself to follow God.
AA Meeting and Surrender
I am certain that you can do all kinds of Christian things and not be in the least bit engaged in what must become the settled position of our lives of dying to ourselves.
We can attend the meetings, read the books, hang around the people, sing the songs… and never surrender.
AND we can attend the meetings, read the books, hang around the people, sing the songs… and be totally surrendered.
So… who is surrendered?
Who isn’t?
Look around the room…
Whose heart is chasing dance dance revolution pads and heelys… whose is the grain of wheat falling to the ground to die.
Look around...
The step of surrendering has a sneaky kind of component to it.
It often involves this exact exercise… do i want to identify with this group of surrenderer?
We want to be the best surrenderer
We don’t want to be the worst surrenderr
We were once surrendered but now we aren’t and we want to hide that shift
We want the life… are open to the language… but we don’t really like “the system of surrender”
You look at one man.
You identify with him.
You follow him to one place — the cross.
Galatians
First through Zechariah and Elizabeth… then through Mary and Joseph as the gospel of Matthew tells the story.
Luke offers his own version of events which center around Mary and Joseph and God’s interactions with them as the virgin Mary gives birth to a son… and they name him Jesus… for he shall save his people from their sins.
They call him Immanuel… God with us.
In that moment, the Word of God became flesh.
Light breaking through shadow and darkness… making his dwelling among us… and we have seen the glory of God.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord.
In Bethlehem the boy was born… in Egypt the boy was weened… in Nazareth the boy was raised...
Exactly what he knew and when is a bit unclear, honestly...
heb 5.7-
His understanding of his life before God came t
Death to self… this held all the promise of his life — and ours — before God.
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