Living the Gospel: Dignity, Respect, and Transformation
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Our charge, our mission, our invitation as a community of Jesus followers is to work together to figure out what it looks like to live out the gospel, live out the kingdom of heaven in our own broken culture. Our culture is broken and the Roman culture was broken, but we're broken in different ways. There's probably some ways in which we're broken in the same ways, but we're also broken in very different ways." [37:39]
2. "We are embodying a cruciform or cross-shaped life where we look, we renew our perception, we renew our perspective and our vision and kind of the way we see the world and we look at everything through that lens of Jesus, the cross, and his kingdom. The first couple of chapters of Ephesians, Paul lays out that Jesus was victorious over the powers and authorities of this world, but his victory didn't come according to the ways or the tactics of the world. His victory came through weakness. His victory came through the cross." [31:26]
3. "It's like Paul's saying, this is, or Jesus is saying, like, this is what it looks like. It's like, to operate as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven, and Paul's saying, yeah, it sounds a lot like what the slaves are already doing, so masters, you start doing it now for your slaves. I think that's interesting. So there's a lot more in here, right, we're barely scratching the surface, and because we can look at this and be like, okay, well, we don't operate in this master-slave environment anymore, so, okay, whatever, we don't need to talk about it. There is still plenty of application here, right?" [59:33]
4. "As far as the east is from the west, that's how far the Lord has removed our transgression from us. This morning, as we take communion, I just want you to think for a moment of, your identity, what adjectives you might use to describe yourself, or what adjectives other people might use to describe you. I just want you to settle on, or to fixate on one. That adjective is forgiven. You are forgiven. No matter who you've been, what you've said, where you've gone, what you've done, what you continue to do, what you continue to think, what you continue to treat other people, you can come to this table, you can come before Jesus, and know that you are forgiven." [01:06:26]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Here's the overarching theme, and that is that we submit to one another in the fear of Christ. In verse 21, it gets so easily overshadowed and overlooked, and we jump straight into verse 22, which is like wives submit to your husbands, and it's like that's all we can talk about, focus on, and think about, and argue about. But we forget, that what Paul says right before that, is everyone is submitting to one another. The church is to be a community of mutual submission and love for everyone, regardless of social status or place on the pyramid or hierarchy of the world or culture or society." [39:22]
2. "Paul is being radically counter-cultural here in each of these instances with wives, and here now with children, by turning the tables and saying, yeah, man, patriarch, you have some expectations too. And so what are the expectations here? Fathers, don't stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Fathers, you have a responsibility here to treat your children with dignity and respect." [46:27]
3. "Paul tears down this system of hierarchy, right? It's not, hey, treat them so they always know that you're the boss, so they always know that they need to please you. It's treat them in the same way, right, in the same way that they're treating you. And you know what's interesting? I thought about that this week, is it's like what Paul then is doing, I think he's kind of connecting this in a way to the Sermon on the Mount, right, because what is Jesus, what is, how does Jesus, how does Jesus tell all of us to operate? I mean, kind of as slaves, right?" [58:09]
4. "Paul's saying this man, who from birth has been, you know, a third class human, right, who has always been taken for granted, overlooked, mistreated, oppressed, right, who even you yourself, Onesimus, have mistreated and oppressed to the point where he ran away from you. I want to send it back to you, but you need to understand, I'm not sending him back to you as a slave, but as a brother, just as he's a brother to me." [56:02]
5. "A kingdom perspective that says we are to treat others with dignity and respect, loving all, because all are created in the image of God, right? Learning how to ourselves bear the image of God, right? Learning how ourselves to walk that cross-shaped life as part of a community where we believe that we are safe and supported, where we won't be taken advantage of, and we're not out to take advantage of others, because we are mutually invested in one another's growth." [01:01:43]
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1. "Our charge, our mission, our invitation as a community of Jesus followers is to work together to figure out what it looks like to live out the gospel, live out the kingdom of heaven in our own broken culture. Our culture is broken and the Roman culture was broken, but we're broken in different ways. There's probably some ways in which we're broken in the same ways, but we're also broken in very different ways." [37:39]
2. "We are embodying a cruciform or cross-shaped life where we look, we renew our perception, we renew our perspective and our vision and kind of the way we see the world and we look at everything through that lens of Jesus, the cross, and his kingdom. The first couple of chapters of Ephesians, Paul lays out that Jesus was victorious over the powers and authorities of this world, but his victory didn't come according to the ways or the tactics of the world. His victory came through weakness. His victory came through the cross." [31:26]
3. "It's like Paul's saying, this is, or Jesus is saying, like, this is what it looks like. It's like, to operate as a citizen of the kingdom of heaven, and Paul's saying, yeah, it sounds a lot like what the slaves are already doing, so masters, you start doing it now for your slaves. I think that's interesting. So there's a lot more in here, right, we're barely scratching the surface, and because we can look at this and be like, okay, well, we don't operate in this master-slave environment anymore, so, okay, whatever, we don't need to talk about it. There is still plenty of application here, right?" [59:33]
4. "As far as the east is from the west, that's how far the Lord has removed our transgression from us. This morning, as we take communion, I just want you to think for a moment of, your identity, what adjectives you might use to describe yourself, or what adjectives other people might use to describe you. I just want you to settle on, or to fixate on one. That adjective is forgiven. You are forgiven. No matter who you've been, what you've said, where you've gone, what you've done, what you continue to do, what you continue to think, what you continue to treat other people, you can come to this table, you can come before Jesus, and know that you are forgiven." [01:06:26]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Here's the overarching theme, and that is that we submit to one another in the fear of Christ. In verse 21, it gets so easily overshadowed and overlooked, and we jump straight into verse 22, which is like wives submit to your husbands, and it's like that's all we can talk about, focus on, and think about, and argue about. But we forget, that what Paul says right before that, is everyone is submitting to one another. The church is to be a community of mutual submission and love for everyone, regardless of social status or place on the pyramid or hierarchy of the world or culture or society." [39:22]
2. "Paul is being radically counter-cultural here in each of these instances with wives, and here now with children, by turning the tables and saying, yeah, man, patriarch, you have some expectations too. And so what are the expectations here? Fathers, don't stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Fathers, you have a responsibility here to treat your children with dignity and respect." [46:27]
3. "Paul tears down this system of hierarchy, right? It's not, hey, treat them so they always know that you're the boss, so they always know that they need to please you. It's treat them in the same way, right, in the same way that they're treating you. And you know what's interesting? I thought about that this week, is it's like what Paul then is doing, I think he's kind of connecting this in a way to the Sermon on the Mount, right, because what is Jesus, what is, how does Jesus, how does Jesus tell all of us to operate? I mean, kind of as slaves, right?" [58:09]
4. "Paul's saying this man, who from birth has been, you know, a third class human, right, who has always been taken for granted, overlooked, mistreated, oppressed, right, who even you yourself, Onesimus, have mistreated and oppressed to the point where he ran away from you. I want to send it back to you, but you need to understand, I'm not sending him back to you as a slave, but as a brother, just as he's a brother to me." [56:02]
5. "A kingdom perspective that says we are to treat others with dignity and respect, loving all, because all are created in the image of God, right? Learning how to ourselves bear the image of God, right? Learning how ourselves to walk that cross-shaped life as part of a community where we believe that we are safe and supported, where we won't be taken advantage of, and we're not out to take advantage of others, because we are mutually invested in one another's growth." [01:01:43]
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