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1 Peter 3:8-17

Behaviors of a new kind of human

Creates a new type of community

“Bless”

Loving life = Watching your words

Do good. Expect evil.

Verse 15

In YOUR asks YOU

in YOU

Why the church is the way it is

Discipleship Evangelism

Everyone has a gospel story

Creation My Identity Fall My Problem

Redemption My SolutionNew Creation My Hope

Everyone is trying to find salvation

Secular legalism or Idolatry

1) How do you define salvation?

How will you know you have arrived?

2) What must you do to be saved?

What rules or rules must you follow?

I’m meant to be happy and valued (Creation)

I’m not physically attractive enough because I’m overweight

(Fall)I can change through will power,

exercise, weight loss(Redemption)

I hope is in that when my body is transformed, I will be loved

(New Creation)

I want people to value me for who I am (Creation)

But people value success, athletic achievement, academics

(Fall)I will do whatever it takes to

succeed, win, or make myself more valuable(Redemption)

My hope is when people will look at me and see how valuable I

am(New Creation)

Why Weight Watchers is like “Church”

What story have you set aside as “holy?”

Proverbs 4:23Above all else, guard your heart,for everything you do flows from

it.

The GOSPEL is the good news that we don’t have to be slaves

to THAT story anymore

The GOSPEL is the good news that that we can lay down the areas of life where we have to

trust in ourselves

4 foundational TRUTHS of GOSPEL

1) GOD is great, so we don’t have to be in control

2) GOD is glorious, so we don’t have to fear others

3) GOD is good, so we don’t have to look elsewhere

4) GOD is gracious, so we don’t have to prove ourselves

Courtroom

The assumption is that people will ask if you live

this way

Either because they find you interesting or they

find you weird

Another assumption is that you WILL suffer for

this

Romans 5

Luke 18

ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.

TWO: You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is

in the water under the earth.

THREE: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

FOUR: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

FIVE: Honor your father and your mother. ✔

SIX: You shall not murder. ✔

SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery. ✔

EIGHT: You shall not steal. ✔

NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ✔

TEN: You shall not covet your neighbors house; you shall not covet your neighbors wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox,

nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor

Luke 19

John 4

Not WHERE but WHAT

POST Christian Culture

This is not a “one time” conversation

Pray.

Listen.

Creation

What do they assume the world should be like?What kind of person would they like to be?Who are their heroes?What would have to be in place for them to be happy?

Fall

How do they describe their struggles?What do they feel is their most pressing problem?What do they feel they lack?Who or what do they think is responsible?

Redemption

What do they think will make life better?What provides a sense of escape or release?Who or what will deliver their hopes?What are their functional saviors, heavens, hells?

New Creation

What are their hopes?What is the long-term project to which they are working?What are the dreams for which they make sacrifices?Have they given up on this happening? (Negative identity)

Looking for idolsMatt. 6:21

Off rampsCol. 4:5

Brokenness, Confusion, Anger

Ask good questions.

What do you want out of this?

Why does this matter so much to you?

Why or why not? How’s that working for you?

What are you passionate about?

Questions for you

What do they believe or not believe about God?Where are the idols?Where are they looking for salvation?Where do the 4 truths connect?

4 foundational TRUTHS of GOSPEL

1) GOD is great, so we don’t have to be in control

2) GOD is glorious, so we don’t have to fear others

3) GOD is good, so we don’t have to look elsewhere

4) GOD is gracious, so we don’t have to prove ourselves

Turning ADVICE into PROCLAMATION

Turnings STORIES into TESTIMONIES

YOUR STORY IS THE BRIDGE

Acts 17:26

Be authentic.

Scratching the surface