Engaging Your Culture

Student Notes

Next Step

·      We have to ________________ with the culture.

Two way Christians have interacted with the culture that differed form Jesus

1: ________________

2: ________________

How Jesus did it?

Jesus ______________ the culture (Luke 19)

This kind of story is very typical for Jesus

§  Luke 7: the prostitute (anoints his feet)

§  Luke 10: Samaritan (cast as the hero)

§  Luke 15: Young brother who goes out and waste his life (fathers love)

Contagious _____________________

o   Jesus discloses not one instance of fearing contamination whether moral or ritual by associating with the wicked or with the impure. Whether He believes that his purity will rub off on them and he hopes that His magnetite toward them would heed them toward his call to discipleship 

Order of Grace

1^st ___________________

2^nd ___________________

Final Point  

Two Action Points

o   You’ve got to __________________ God’s grace, before you can experience his restoration in your life

o   You’ve got to __________ with grace if you want to see restoration in the world around you. 

Restore Part 1: A World Re-imagine

Student Notes

Main Question

·      Where would you say that the message of the gospel begins?

The message of the gospel begins with the _________________ of the garden

·      Genesis 1:3-4,9-10,14-15,25,27

God is on mission in the world to take all that is _____________ and _____________ and _____________ and restore it.

To see the finished product of God’s work then you go to the ___________

Revelation 21:4-5

4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

God’s restoration can begin ___________

Luke 4:18-19,21

 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. 
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, 
to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

Jesus invites us to ____________ Him in the restoring work

What does it involved?

It involved looking at this world that has been damages and broken by sin and being able to _____________________it.

One of the things Satan wants to robbed us of is your ______________ to look at the world around you and to dare imagine it

Final Question

·      Is there some area of your life that you have _______________

re-imaging?

Not A Fan Week 6: Is Jesus Enough?

Series Verse

Luke 9:23, and it reads, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

Main Question: Are you a fan or a follower of Jesus?

Sermon passages John 6:26-27; 35

1) When Jesus is the Only Thing on the Menu, You Find Out if He’s the One You Were Really hungry For. (John 6:66-67)

2) When You Really know Jesus as Lord, You Don’t Want to leave Him.

3) We Don’t Know the Way We wish , So We Don’t Believe the Way We should .

4) We Don’t Know the day , But We Know His name

Final Point

Are you a fan or are you a follower of Jesus?