Your Turn to Pray
What’s your highest prayer for our country?
Last Week: Get Real
Christianity is best seen as a lived practice and example, rather than a lecture. It means that Christianity is made credible by works of love, compassion, service. Jonathan Merritt Learning to Speak God From Scratch
Keys for this series:
Keys for this series: seek to: understand laugh apologize forgive
Keys for this series: seek to: understand laugh apologize forgive
Today: Listen Well
“Incarnational” Listening
Incarnation: the union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ. Merriam-Webster.com
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21
“He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.” Athanasius of Alexandria
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we...
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we...
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
I’m sure you know that most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are! Take that as a given. Richard Rohr Breathing Underwater
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we...
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. David Augsburger
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we… 3. Jesus stayed the same and we…
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we… 3. Jesus stayed the same and we… 1 Corinthians 12-13
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we… 3. Jesus stayed the same and we… BUT remember for us it’s OK to change/come together
“Incarnational” (following Jesus) Listening = discipleship As Jesus/we… Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we… 3. Jesus stayed the same and we… BUT remember for us it’s OK to change/come together 4. Jesus held the tension and we...
John 8 - Protecting the Woman Caught in Sexual Sin Luke 19 - Having Lunch with the Man who Cheated People Matthew 9 - Calling a Cheat to be an Apostle
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:9-13
Key Ideas
stop jumping ahead to your next point Key Ideas stop jumping ahead to your next point
stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Key Ideas stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them
stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Key Ideas stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Clarifying Questions
stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Key Ideas stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Clarifying Questions What’s the most important thing you want me to remember?
stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Key Ideas stop jumping ahead to your next point focus on understanding them Clarifying Questions What’s the most important thing you want me to remember? What do you think I’m not understanding?
Jesus left his world and we… 2. Jesus entered our world and we… 3. Jesus stayed the same and we… 4. Jesus held the tension and we...
Call to Faith Who are you being called to listen to now? What does it look like to engage with that person?