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Introduction: What we truly believe is seen not said
In one phrase, state what you hope to accomplish with your sermon.
I want people to walk away with a glimpse of how Jesus did his ministry and what challenge Jesus would present to them.
I want people to wrestle with which chair they are in.
I want people to walk away with a glimpse of how Jesus did his ministry and what challenge Jesus would present to them.
Give three or four important aspects about the subject matter
Invited people to come and see,
then he invited them to believe in him,
then he helped them sacrificially serve,
then he invited them to help others do the same.
Craft several two-minute stories that illustrate each aspect.
The number of stories is determined by the length of your presentation.
Recently there was a friend who sought to
Weave these stories together to make a formal presentation.
Step 1: Select a Story
Does it resonate with me?
Do I like the way it ends?
Step 2: Push through the story
Read the story twice - put it aside and talk it through.
Tells you if you like the story or not.
Then read it again.
Step 3: Envision the scene with present-day feelings and concerns
Step 4: Tell the story from the view of Someone at the scene
Step 5: Establish the story’s central truth
Step 6: Find a memory hook (“everyone knows dry fry”)
Step 7: Optional - tell a story within a story
Step 8: Plan your first words
Step 9: Know how the story ends - Plan your last words
Extra Steps to take it to the next level.
Step 10: Research the facts
Step 11: Eliminate needless detail
Step 12: Add description to the story (take 1 minute describing one action)
Step 13: Include audience participation
Step 14: Arrange practice audiences
Six Year Old and Shoveled Hearts
Six Year Old and Shoveled Hearts
My six year old eyes are closed in the car.
I see a picture of my heart - it was full of this dark dirt.
Then I see a shovel begin to chip away at the dirt - slowly, I am being cleansed.
It’s late at night, my dad and i are the only ones awake, and we are in the 10th hour of a 16 hour family roadtrip.
He had just finished telling me about how I could accept Jesus into my heart.
My eyes still closed, the shovel is still he dirt shifts into words or visuals of the wrong things I’ve done.
As the shovel keeps chipping away at this darkness in me, I am slowly being cleared out.
Suddenly, a door appears and I see this this shadowy figure rush into the door and it’s closed.
I open my eyes and eagerly and tell my dad what i saw.
My dad tells me that was the Holy Spirit and that I have been saved.
Cool, i thought, that was easy!
, I live the next ten years of my life being open to
Eleven years later, i hear my father scream, “Remember that time in the car when you were young!”
I am 17 years old, my family and I am in the middle of blaming my father for not taking us to church or teaching us about Jesus.
My dad tells me that was the Holy Spirit.
This is a moment my dad is keen to remind me of years later when I had spent the next ten years living as a functional atheist.
He said that in that moment he did his part, but by then, when I was 17 years old, his part didn’t seem very big, and I never really understood.
live the next ten years of my life being open to
I had just spent the last 11 years of my life as a functional atheist, living with little regard to the God I thought rushed into my heart when I was six.
My life didn’t look any different than some other law abiding atheist.
I didn’t have much of any relationship with God.
In my mind, I learned and believed what I needed to believe, and got me a plane ticket to heaven, but I’d think about that flight later.
I had just spent the last 11 years of my life as a functional atheist, living with little regard to the God I thought came into my heart when I was 6.
My looked like any other other law abiding citizen.
I didn’t have much of any relationship with God.
In my mind, I learned and believed what I needed to believe, and this got me a spiritual plane ticket to heaven, but the board time for that flight was way in the future.
s keen to remind me of years later when I had spent the next ten years living as a functional atheist.
He said that in that moment he did his part, but by then, when I was 17 years old, his part didn’t seem very big, and I never really understood.
live the next ten years of my life being open to
I had just spent the last 11 years of my life as a functional atheist, living with little regard to the God I thought rushed into my heart when I was six.
My life didn’t look any different than some other law abiding atheist.
I didn’t have much of any relationship with God.
In my mind, I learned and believed what I needed to believe, and got me a plane ticket to heaven, but I’d think about that flight later.
I couldn’t have told you that’s what I believed, but that’s how I lived.
is keen to remind me of years later when I had spent the next ten years living as a functional atheist.
He said that in that moment he did his part, but by then, when I was 17 years old, his part didn’t seem very big, and I never really understood.
live the next ten years of my life being open to
[SLIDE - Main Truth] What we believe is revealed by our hands, not our mouths.
x2 Better even, who we believe is revealed by our hands, not our mouths.
[SLIDE - Main Truth Two] Our beliefs are not spoken, they are lived.
We see our beliefs in life, we don’t say them.
We see our beliefs in life, we don’t say them.
Then as the dirt is My first memory of Jesus was when I was 5 or 6 years old.
I was asking my dad about who this Jesus guy was.
I was in the car when my dad told me
TRANSITION: Today, on the day of our official launch, we are opening our doors and letting everyone know that we want, not just to know the right things to say about Jesus, but we want to live like Jesus.
Really, LIVE, like him.
Today we will be exploring
Really - LIVE, like him.
We are only looking at one verse - - please turn there with me on page 1,302 of your pew bible.
[SLIDE - Verse] Whoever claims to abide in him, they must walk in the same manner in which he walked (ESV).
[SLIDE - Verse] If anyone claims to be in him, they must live the life that Jesus lived.
(NIV).
[SLIDE - Verse] If anyone claims to be in him, they must live the life that Jesus lived.
(NIV).
So our call Christian, is to live they life Jesus lived.
BUT I truly didn’t know how what I learned as a child should affect how I live.
After knowing the salvation formula, I did very little if anything at all to try and follow him.
What I was sold, unintentionally, by my Father, is a commercialized easy version of Christianity that is more knowledge download than life upload.
Knowledge downloaded and stored somewhere in the computer of my mind to find it when i need rather than uploading the whole of my life into the world of God so as to live in and form Him. `
Transition: Regardless, What my father had taught me when I was 6 would prepare me to become someone very open to God and faith later in life.
God is light, therefore the Christian life is “walking in the light.”
[slide] Jesus and his Four Challenges
Today we are what it looks like to live LIKE JESUS.
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