DNA Of A Dangerous Church - Launch Week 02
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Welcome to Week Two of the DNA of a Dangerous Church Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you can find information about right here.
Before We Start
A unique aspect of the Christian faith is Jesus' teaching that those who followed Him would become a completely new community, a new family, a new Kingdom of people unlike any other on earth. A people whose identity would be rooted in their love for God and others. People of every nation, regardless of race, nationality, language and socioeconomic background. None worthy, all loved, all united by Jesus. Pastor Marcus Johnson shared in his opening sermon for this series that, “There are those in our world who look at the church and stifle a yawn, but the heavenly beings, who have existed from the beginning, they look at this and gasp in wonder… and then they shudder in fear”. In this series we’re going to explore the characteristics of the church, and the practices of every devoted disciple of Jesus, that make us the beautiful, dangerous force that God is using to change the world.
Looking Ahead
In the second week of this series we are focusing on the practice of doing the things Jesus did by making a difference in our community. Jesus made a stir during His ministry because He became known for His Compassion, especially toward those who were traditionally marginalized, even shunned by the Israelites. The Jewish people had taken their status as ‘set apart’ by God and had become alienated, even hostile to the rest of the world. They had lost sight of God’s purpose in setting them apart for the sake of others: “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:1-3). The Israelites were a chosen people so that God could use them to show all peoples what it meant to live a blessed life: a life submitted to God.
Jesus came so that we could all become a part of the family of God, and so that we could share the blessing He has given us with others. Our devotion to Jesus should transform not only us, but the world around us as we take the love of Jesus with us into our community. This week we are going to finish Galations and move into Paul’s letter to the Ephesians to dig deeper into this idea. Take a few minutes to watch this video for a helpful overview of the book and it’s context:
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/ephesians/
Here is a list of this week's verses:
Monday, August 19 - Galatians 6
Tuesday, August 20 - Ephesians 1
Wednesday, August 21 - Ephesians 2
Thursday, August 22 - Ephesians 3
Friday, August 23 - Ephesians 4
Welcome to Week Two of the DNA of a Dangerous Church Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you can find information about right here.
Before We Start
A unique aspect of the Christian faith is Jesus' teaching that those who followed Him would become a completely new community, a new family, a new Kingdom of people unlike any other on earth. A people whose identity would be rooted in their love for God and others. People of every nation, regardless of race, nationality, language and socioeconomic background. None worthy, all loved, all united by Jesus. Pastor Marcus Johnson shared in his opening sermon for this series that, “There are those in our world who look at the church and stifle a yawn, but the heavenly beings, who have existed from the beginning, they look at this and gasp in wonder… and then they shudder in fear”. In this series we’re going to explore the characteristics of the church, and the practices of every devoted disciple of Jesus, that make us the beautiful, dangerous force that God is using to change the world.
Looking Ahead
In the second week of this series we are focusing on the practice of doing the things Jesus did by making a difference in our community. Jesus made a stir during His ministry because He became known for His Compassion, especially toward those who were traditionally marginalized, even shunned by the Israelites. The Jewish people had taken their status as ‘set apart’ by God and had become alienated, even hostile to the rest of the world. They had lost sight of God’s purpose in setting them apart for the sake of others: “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:1-3). The Israelites were a chosen people so that God could use them to show all peoples what it meant to live a blessed life: a life submitted to God.
Jesus came so that we could all become a part of the family of God, and so that we could share the blessing He has given us with others. Our devotion to Jesus should transform not only us, but the world around us as we take the love of Jesus with us into our community. This week we are going to finish Galations and move into Paul’s letter to the Ephesians to dig deeper into this idea. Take a few minutes to watch this video for a helpful overview of the book and it’s context:
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/ephesians/
Here is a list of this week's verses:
Monday, August 19 - Galatians 6
Tuesday, August 20 - Ephesians 1
Wednesday, August 21 - Ephesians 2
Thursday, August 22 - Ephesians 3
Friday, August 23 - Ephesians 4
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