Becoming Whole Sermon Outlne Week 10

Outline 2:

Intro/Welcome

The most important question

Proposition: true change only comes through risk.

Pray

Jesus heals the 38 year disabled man

The man’s identity

Jesus transforms the man

Jesus and you

how have you been disabled?

Jesus intends to transform you

The Crucial Question: Do you want to get well?

why not?

comfort of sin

wounded identity

fear of the unknown

misery of uncertainty vs. certainty of misery

What it takes to change

Risking your whole self with Jesus

the man had to obey, to get up and walk

what if he had failed?

what if he had never walked?

trusting Him rather than yourself.

in the end absolute unconditional surrender

surrender without condition

live a changed life

Application:

Do you want to get well?

Will you risk yourself to Jesus?

Outline 1

Intro/Welcome

Pray

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The man has put his hope in a particular technique or religious ritual

If I just take the five steps to freedom

If i just pray the right prayer

If I just promise to never disobey God again

If I just _______ then I would be healed.