Large Group 3/17/19

IceBreaker

House

Everyone wearing green?

If you were on a desert island

Envision

What 3 items would you take with you?

IceBreaker

Announcements

Phones away

Everyone enjoy spring break? Was it enough?

My update: tried catching up on homework, relaxed, bought a House, prepped youth group

Envision— keep the team in prayer, team meeting today

Prayer Jar

Opening prayer—ACTS

Body

What have we been learning about?

ACTS

4 Chairs

Spiritual Gifts

Sunday School?

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2 Samuel

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What’s different between then and now?

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8,000 miles away

Idols

Technology

What are some modern idols?

What are some modern idols?

Statue represents idolatrous ambition

Ancient places of worship

Worship technique

Nobody knew what the gods wanted

Modern day places of worship

We’re not so different than them

Ecclesiastes 1:9–10 ESV

9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV

9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Eccl 1:

You’re not learning old stories, but the Word of God

Colossians 2:4–10 ESV

4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Colossians 2:4–10 ESV

4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Then 6-10

Does this mean that all philosophy is bad? All human tradition?

What are some examples of philosophy/empty deceit?

How can we distinguish between what is empty deceit and damaging tradition?

Mormonism

Joseph Smith

Tennets—pantheon of gods, perfection reachable, eternal family successions, man is generally good

Gospel—Jesus is firstborn, had a plan of salvation next to Lucifer, perfected and became a god, you can be saved after all your effort is good enough

2 Nephi 25:23

What’s wrong with that?

Our founder is a God who died and rose from the dead

One true God, perfect and holy, mankind has fallen, generally evil,

Who is Jesus? Read

Gospel

What about the god of Success?

You’re reading stories about you in SS—you’re not so different

Nobody in here is Mormon, but you all feel the pressure to succeed

What about the pressure in America and being a Chinese-American is taking you captive away from Christ? That Jesus isn’t enough?

Time of ACTS

Rest of time in prayer. Either by yourself, or in a small group if you can be mature

Adoration

Confession

Thanksgiving

Supplication