Love All In

Notes

loving with all strength—ischuos—capacity, ability, power, force

THis is about both any resource in my life and the things that I count as strengths—or even the things that regularly determine things about my life—actions that create realities (if i purchase it, pursue it, practice it, process it

common practices

intentional pursuits

everyday purchases

regular processes

** The things I do that affect my world also create a path that I am likely to stay on (like wearing a groove—cf cattle trail)

Cf “make noffect my world also create a path that I am likely to stay on (like wearing a groove—cf cattle trail)

The more I do a thing or pursue a thing or purchase a thing, etc., the more of my life I devote to that thing--

Cf Romans? Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision...

CF rom 13:11-14—it’s an assessment of all the ways (each one plural) that one might spend resource / energy unwisely--

the issue—that these things become determinant

teh solution—endup Jesus and do no planning for the flesh—it’s about aiming life at desire-satisfaction

INfo-

The use of resources creates patterns of living and directs life;

the most direct means of obedience is activity (behavior)—but this can be extended into all manageent of capacity / resource / ability

The reality of resources is that the allocation of any resource creates a flow to that allocation (Cf moving from VHS to DVD) (CF buying a horse—committing time, money, activities, relationships, etc)

cast off / put on

certain activities belong to certain environments

“walk” is way of life

Implications-

teh more I invest resource in a thing, the more of my life that thing will dictate, and the greater teh degree it will dictate it

If I want a different way of life, I must start choosing to invest in the things that go with it

It means Jesus as a model

it means primary rather than secondary ways

it means changing at the planning stages (preparation/ provision)

** PUT ON JESUS vs provide for flesh

*** This points all of my resources toward teh Christ life--

I make great movements in that direction

i eliminate distraction and disparate / contradictory elements in life

Romans 13:14 ESV

14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

INfo-

what you know- behavior is love in action

what you need to know—behavior creates ways and trends and both perpetuates itself as well as compounds itself (by virtue of harnessing resource and creatin patterns and sympathetic functions)

Implications--

redirecting life will mean redirecting investment of resource—begin to see activity as investment

make whole-scale changes—choose packages, not activities—choose the things that will helo you choose the things that you really want to choose—make things more likely in life! (by building in what goes with what you’re after—if you want to be rodeo rider…, equestrian…, SCUBA diver… great cook… Cf commercial w/ Aaron Rogers about Izod shirts and Rugby

so-

1- choose teh [person of Christ] before the action taht matches

2- choose at the planning stage, not just the activity stage

3- choose “kits” not just standalone activities (Cf buying camera—get lenses, brushes, filters, etc—get off to a great start)

Inspiration—this is like a launch

??something from the text? (Rom or ?)

?? Something about actions becoming armor; the moer my investments create lifestyle, that lifestyle becomes protection against attack—I don’t fall as easily because too many things are built into my system that fit a desirable way and just don’t fit an undesirable way (difference between winter and summer activities) (separates me from crowds, directs my resources / commits my resources, builds my routines / reward centers in the brain, even builds expectations in other people to help me live accordingly, it accumulates materials in my life that foment certain activities and leave me ill-equipped for other things that I might not want to be about)

Colossians 3:10 ESV

10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 4:24 ESV

24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

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Mark 12:30 ESV

30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

KWDS / ideas

activity creates proclivity

actions collect and crowd—collect companions and crowd competitors—thus actions accumulate into lifestyle, and lifestyle creates life

Gift of the magi—the oddity of sacrificial love—noteworthy because each loses a lifestyle piece in pursuit of love, and love creates its own new lifestyle—so this is how it all comes together—the ACTION of love changes a prominent FEATURE of life that once defined each one—and now that feature—no longer present—has opened up a new approach where the other person’s desires begin to be what life is built around

action creates attraction; action creates attachment; action creates accumulation (also crowding out competition)

peripateo- walk—way of life

behaviors can’t live long in isolation—they travel with companions (even here—teh plural forms)

INTRO

Nike- just do it—idea is that at some point—no more excuses. Take action! They want you to look at their ad, identify with their athlete, imagine yourself having that experience, and buy the shoes that will make it all happen. Of course, as soon as you buy their shoes, and then have to take a break after you’ve bent over to tie them, just do it becomes i’ll get to it. Just hold it. Just do it tomorrow. Just buy the shoes and be done with it.

It’s easier to buy action shoes than build an actino life. And yet think about this—your Mama used to have to spank you to sit down! You didn’t accident your way here, you actioned your way here. It wasn’t necessarily bad action. It had to do with 3 AM feedings and 16 hour work days between the job and the house, and just a small piece of cake, and a really great TV with remote control.

So what can you do about that athlete stuck inside you that’s wearing all those extra layers? That’s what we’re talking about today. When Jesus was asked… Shema… Strength

SCR

When we think about better life, whether experiencing better or being better, it often hinges on behavior. You’ve been hearing it since… behave. and make sure you’re wearing clean underwear in case…, but mostly behave

Here you’ve got some instructions that sound pretty straightforward. Just do it. Or in this case, just stop it.

IN the 1980’s, Nancy Reagan had taken on a project that became dear—the concern about how many people were hooked on illegal drugs, and how early it was happening. At Longfellow elementary in Oakland… little girl asked… Soon it became teh name of an entire campaigb...