Staff Retreat 19
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This is who I am so this is what I do.
This is who I am so this is what I do.
Do you know who you are? Dont you hate that question?
Well, who defines who you are? “when the character of a man is not clear, look at his friends”. We really are known by the company we keep. The people we are around help define who we are.
But ultimately we are defined by our relationship with our Creator.
Serving together to create a distraction free environment where people can encounter God.
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
22 Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Older translations have ‘set your heart’. Newer ones have ‘seek’. Both meant to convey our desires.
Much more than a line of thought, ‘set your mind’ refers to all our values and loves.
Desires and values
Individual -
Of the organization -
They either merge and match and benefit one another or cause conflict.
We see this clearly in the life of Joseph:
Sold to the Midianites (or Ishmaelites) by his brothers
Midian was Abraham’s son by Keturah. Ishmael was Abraham’s son by Hagar. So each was Isaac’s half brother. Isaac was Joseph’s grandfather. The brothers sold Joseph to his cousins. It was a bad deal all the way around.
Wound up as a house servant to Potiphar, career army man in Egypt. This is a place we can see the struggle between the desires and values of the individual and the organization.
- How can I do this great wickedness and sin against...
Your husband
My family
Your husband
My God
My God
This is who I am, so this is what I do.
I need to please ________ so this is what I do.
This is who I want to be, so this is what I do.
This is who I was so this is what I do.
This is my baggage so this is what I do.
Adopted, bought, redeemed, grafted, chosen, rescued, [justified], [sanctified], [reconciled], united both with Christ and each other, changed, sealed, forgiven.
Out of who I am springs forth what I do.
We see that in Joseph. Can you see that in yourself?
Peeling away all the pretense, we are each the most important person in the world. Inherently selfish. Which means we need extraordinary grace to see others with compassion.
Much more than a line of thought, ‘set your mind’ refers to all our values and loves.
Desires and values
Individual -
Of the organization -
They either merge and match and benefit one another or cause conflict.
We see this clearly in the life of Joseph:
Sold to the Midianites (or Ishmaelites) by his brothers
Midian was Abraham’s son by Keturah. Ishmael was Abraham’s son by Hagar. So each was Isaac’s half brother. Isaac was Joseph’s grandfather. The brothers sold Joseph to his cousins. It was a bad deal all the way around.
Wound up as a house servant to Potiphar, career army man in Egypt. This is a place we can see the struggle between the desires and values of the individual and the organization.