Dangerous Transformations
Dangerous Love // Week One // Dangerous Transformations
Key Scriptures Matthew 22.37-40
Key Points
1. The Church transforms the living to the dead. 2. The Church Transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. 3. The Church Transforms spectators into participants. Takeaway The church is not here for us. We are the church, and we are here for the world.
Grow DEEPER
Deuteronomy 6.4-9 // Mark 12.28-34
Live DEEPER
The central confession of the Jewish faith appears in the prayer, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” This would have been a prayer Jesus said and repeated often. It is a call to faith intended for a particular people, Israel, to believe the God who created them, is calling them His own, He is their Lord, and He is one. He is not a multitude of gods, as the pagans believed. He is not the sun god, or the moon god or the god of the earth. This God is the God of the sun, the moon and the earth. At this time in history, believing in a single God was unheard of among the ancients. This belief in one supreme God set apart Israel from all other peoples, and nations. By setting them apart God was able to create in them a work that would prepare the world for the coming Messiah, Jesus, and His Church. Today, God’s work continues through His Spirit that is active and alive in the lives of all who have believe and confess, Jesus is Lord. Like Israel, a confession of this nature sets us apart for a specific purpose. As the Church we are called to Love God, and love people, and to carry His message of hope and salvation to the world. Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Look DEEPER
Do you see yourself as someone who has been set apart by God for a purpose? Have you ever considered that you are a part of God’s mission here on the earth? That your talents, gifts, resources, abilities, and voice is needed to further the kingdom of God?
Love DEEPER
Jesus has called His Church to the task of loving God with all we have, and loving our neighbor, our family, our friends, the stranger, the person on the other side of the fight, the one who annoys us, the bully, the the one who broke our heart, Jesus has called us to love all of them as ourself. Because when we love those who don’t deserve it, we find ourself loving like God, and living out His dangerous love.
Key Scriptures Matthew 22.37-40
Key Points
1. The Church transforms the living to the dead. 2. The Church Transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. 3. The Church Transforms spectators into participants. Takeaway The church is not here for us. We are the church, and we are here for the world.
Grow DEEPER
Deuteronomy 6.4-9 // Mark 12.28-34
Live DEEPER
The central confession of the Jewish faith appears in the prayer, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” This would have been a prayer Jesus said and repeated often. It is a call to faith intended for a particular people, Israel, to believe the God who created them, is calling them His own, He is their Lord, and He is one. He is not a multitude of gods, as the pagans believed. He is not the sun god, or the moon god or the god of the earth. This God is the God of the sun, the moon and the earth. At this time in history, believing in a single God was unheard of among the ancients. This belief in one supreme God set apart Israel from all other peoples, and nations. By setting them apart God was able to create in them a work that would prepare the world for the coming Messiah, Jesus, and His Church. Today, God’s work continues through His Spirit that is active and alive in the lives of all who have believe and confess, Jesus is Lord. Like Israel, a confession of this nature sets us apart for a specific purpose. As the Church we are called to Love God, and love people, and to carry His message of hope and salvation to the world. Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Look DEEPER
Do you see yourself as someone who has been set apart by God for a purpose? Have you ever considered that you are a part of God’s mission here on the earth? That your talents, gifts, resources, abilities, and voice is needed to further the kingdom of God?
Love DEEPER
Jesus has called His Church to the task of loving God with all we have, and loving our neighbor, our family, our friends, the stranger, the person on the other side of the fight, the one who annoys us, the bully, the the one who broke our heart, Jesus has called us to love all of them as ourself. Because when we love those who don’t deserve it, we find ourself loving like God, and living out His dangerous love.
