Choosing the Narrow Path: Living Jesus' Mission
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Without Jesus, we are all lost. Apart from Jesus, we're selfish. We're broken. We're self-serving. Apart from Jesus, in Christ, we are set free. And I'm not saying, you know, you're like, well, not like some of those people out there. See, that's the problem. You think it's like a matter of degrees. Well, I'm better than that horrible person over there. The comparison isn't that horrible person over there. The comparison is God's holiness and righteousness and true holiness. The standard." [48:55]
2. "Lost people are not the enemy, right? Lost people are not the enemy. They're the ones who are the enemy. They're the ones who are the enemy. We are called to share good news with. And far too often, especially with what's happened in our culture, I mean, it's always been a thing because it's human nature. But in our culture, it feels like in the last 20 years, something went crazy. Everything is political. Everything becomes acrimonious and we're angry and we're yelling at each other. And it's like, those people are bad. Those people are the enemy. No, they're not. They're sinners, just like you, apart from Jesus. And they need Jesus. They're the mission. They're not the enemy. They are our mission." [50:15]
3. "Try it. Try it. Open your table. Welcome someone to your table. If that's a little too intense, go to a restaurant first, kind of middle ground. It's a start. But just make room. Just make room. Because people, they don't, they may not have any idea that they need Jesus yet. They may not, they may have heard the Bible is whatever, and they may have no interest. You know what they know? They know that they were created for love. They know that they were created for relationships. There's something very powerful about welcoming someone into your circle and loving them in Jesus' name." [01:03:52]
4. "Following Jesus will always lead to living out his mission. Always. Because his mission becomes my mission. Okay, the third question is how. How do we carry out the mission? And this is what's great. Jesus' model. We have a meal. Isn't that great? Anybody have a meal this week? I'm looking at you. I can tell. Okay. We've all had a meal. We get it. No, but that's the beauty. Jesus is sitting down and having a meal. And I think we miss this. I think we miss this powerful thing. This is the part that was so offensive. Because at a meal, we're just people." [55:50]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We talked about how the path of a disciple always leaves the safety of the crowd to embrace the surrender of the way and that's sometimes the hardest part because we kind of there's safety in the crowd and kind of just go along and you know kind of want everybody to think I'm doing good and proving me and at some point when you're following Jesus you have to leave the crowd and we saw it over and over in the New Testament we saw the other way it's not a new path necessarily but a new life found in relationship with Jesus." [32:12]
2. "We learned that the narrow way is never the easy way ever because there are three enemies that we constantly have to fight flesh world and the enemy of our soul Satan and we learned that the secret to the narrow way is learning to walk by faith learning to walk by faith and that's one of the things that that we struggle with and last week we kind of zeroed in on one area we talked about living for the kingdom without fear because your father's your provider." [32:12]
3. "Jesus' mission is to seek and to save the lost. That's his mission, and therefore it's our mission. When he called them, he said, you're going to now be fishing for people. See, we have to understand, and we know this, we get angry at it. We are bothered by the fact our world, is broken. Our world is messed up, and we get, we look, and we watch the news, or we see stuff that's put into movies, or TV, and we just get upset and angry. We hear people talking about things, people talking about issues, and we get angry. Like, we need to understand, we live in a broken and a fallen world. People are far from God, and they are heading for an eternity separated from God. And our call, in Jesus, with Jesus, is to fish for people. Our call is to see as many people as possible find life in him. That's what we do." [43:15]
4. "See, following Jesus will always lead to living out his mission. See, as followers of Jesus, what we can say, say it this way. We can say his mission becomes our mission. Following Jesus will, always lead to living out his mission because his mission becomes my mission. Because understand when we're, we become followers of Jesus, we are forgiven of our sins. We are set free and we're filled with his spirit. Now the spirit of Jesus lives in us and he continues his mission. And so being a follower of Jesus always means living out his mission because his mission literally becomes my mission." [40:26]
5. "See, we help each other grow. That's how discipleship works. Iron sharpens iron. The body of Christ. It's not just pulpit to pew or chairs. It's people to people. As we use our spiritual gifts, we encourage each other. We remind each other. That's how we grow. That's what we're called to do. See, what we do in the context of the church, we create a safe space of grace and peace. Where we can truly speak the truth to one another in love. And then as we take our mission outside, our goal is to model that place of peace and grace for those that we're able to bring in. Those who we're able to connect with. Those who we're able to serve through the body of Christ." [55:50]
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1. "Without Jesus, we are all lost. Apart from Jesus, we're selfish. We're broken. We're self-serving. Apart from Jesus, in Christ, we are set free. And I'm not saying, you know, you're like, well, not like some of those people out there. See, that's the problem. You think it's like a matter of degrees. Well, I'm better than that horrible person over there. The comparison isn't that horrible person over there. The comparison is God's holiness and righteousness and true holiness. The standard." [48:55]
2. "Lost people are not the enemy, right? Lost people are not the enemy. They're the ones who are the enemy. They're the ones who are the enemy. We are called to share good news with. And far too often, especially with what's happened in our culture, I mean, it's always been a thing because it's human nature. But in our culture, it feels like in the last 20 years, something went crazy. Everything is political. Everything becomes acrimonious and we're angry and we're yelling at each other. And it's like, those people are bad. Those people are the enemy. No, they're not. They're sinners, just like you, apart from Jesus. And they need Jesus. They're the mission. They're not the enemy. They are our mission." [50:15]
3. "Try it. Try it. Open your table. Welcome someone to your table. If that's a little too intense, go to a restaurant first, kind of middle ground. It's a start. But just make room. Just make room. Because people, they don't, they may not have any idea that they need Jesus yet. They may not, they may have heard the Bible is whatever, and they may have no interest. You know what they know? They know that they were created for love. They know that they were created for relationships. There's something very powerful about welcoming someone into your circle and loving them in Jesus' name." [01:03:52]
4. "Following Jesus will always lead to living out his mission. Always. Because his mission becomes my mission. Okay, the third question is how. How do we carry out the mission? And this is what's great. Jesus' model. We have a meal. Isn't that great? Anybody have a meal this week? I'm looking at you. I can tell. Okay. We've all had a meal. We get it. No, but that's the beauty. Jesus is sitting down and having a meal. And I think we miss this. I think we miss this powerful thing. This is the part that was so offensive. Because at a meal, we're just people." [55:50]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We talked about how the path of a disciple always leaves the safety of the crowd to embrace the surrender of the way and that's sometimes the hardest part because we kind of there's safety in the crowd and kind of just go along and you know kind of want everybody to think I'm doing good and proving me and at some point when you're following Jesus you have to leave the crowd and we saw it over and over in the New Testament we saw the other way it's not a new path necessarily but a new life found in relationship with Jesus." [32:12]
2. "We learned that the narrow way is never the easy way ever because there are three enemies that we constantly have to fight flesh world and the enemy of our soul Satan and we learned that the secret to the narrow way is learning to walk by faith learning to walk by faith and that's one of the things that that we struggle with and last week we kind of zeroed in on one area we talked about living for the kingdom without fear because your father's your provider." [32:12]
3. "Jesus' mission is to seek and to save the lost. That's his mission, and therefore it's our mission. When he called them, he said, you're going to now be fishing for people. See, we have to understand, and we know this, we get angry at it. We are bothered by the fact our world, is broken. Our world is messed up, and we get, we look, and we watch the news, or we see stuff that's put into movies, or TV, and we just get upset and angry. We hear people talking about things, people talking about issues, and we get angry. Like, we need to understand, we live in a broken and a fallen world. People are far from God, and they are heading for an eternity separated from God. And our call, in Jesus, with Jesus, is to fish for people. Our call is to see as many people as possible find life in him. That's what we do." [43:15]
4. "See, following Jesus will always lead to living out his mission. See, as followers of Jesus, what we can say, say it this way. We can say his mission becomes our mission. Following Jesus will, always lead to living out his mission because his mission becomes my mission. Because understand when we're, we become followers of Jesus, we are forgiven of our sins. We are set free and we're filled with his spirit. Now the spirit of Jesus lives in us and he continues his mission. And so being a follower of Jesus always means living out his mission because his mission literally becomes my mission." [40:26]
5. "See, we help each other grow. That's how discipleship works. Iron sharpens iron. The body of Christ. It's not just pulpit to pew or chairs. It's people to people. As we use our spiritual gifts, we encourage each other. We remind each other. That's how we grow. That's what we're called to do. See, what we do in the context of the church, we create a safe space of grace and peace. Where we can truly speak the truth to one another in love. And then as we take our mission outside, our goal is to model that place of peace and grace for those that we're able to bring in. Those who we're able to connect with. Those who we're able to serve through the body of Christ." [55:50]
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