Crossroads Church
A Fresh Perspective :: Part 7 :: Living East of Eden | Ryan Howell :: May 28, 2023
In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love.
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What’s the Issue Anyway?
Remember: A Fresh Perspective embraces Jesus’ politic of ____________________ not holiness.
A Fresh Perspective sees salvation as ____________________ in two dimensions.
A Fresh Perspective on salvation embraces the metaphor of life ____________ of ____________.
Life East of Eden is marked by four spiritual powers: ___________, ______________, ______________
and the ___________ of __________________.
What Wisdom does Scripture offer us?
A Fresh Perspective embraces and redeems the metaphors revealing a need for ___________ ____________: Born Again and The Way of Death and Resurrection. Jn 3:1-5, Mk 8:34, Lk 9:23-24)
A Fresh Perspective sees Jesus as ___________ ____________ and ___________ ___________ of God in the flesh. (Jn 14:6)
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Salvation is a metaphor for the __________________ transformation that puts us on the path of _____________ dying to an old way and rising to a new way of seeing ourselves, our neighbor and our God.
How can I live this in my everyday, normal life?
Stop running from the one who heals the _______________ _______________. Choose to ______________ in Jesus’ way of dying and rising.
The way of dying and rising is the path of making ______________.
How does this make me a better person and the world a better place?
New Life in the Christian traditions replaces the power of sin, guilt, shame and the lie of separation with the power of _________________, ___________, ______________ and ____________.
The fear of death is replaced with __________________ ____________ in the goodness of God for this life and the next.
What is God inviting you into today?
- (Re)Start an intentional relationship with God.
- There is a person I need to make amends with as part of my dying to an old self and rising to a new self.
- I would like to talk with someone about baptism as a symbol of my entering this new way of life revealed in Jesus.
Thought provoking questions:
- Do you have any physical symptoms associated with the feeling of guilt and shame? What are they?
- How does guilt turn to shame in your life? Is there anything that you have found helpful in short- circuiting that process?
- What ways of talking about or thinking about salvation were given to you as a child or in your spiritual journey? How have these ways of seeing salvation been helpful? Have they been harmful?
- As we explore the first dimension of salvation, have you had any personal experiences that produced a new way of seeing or living in your life?
- What are some habits that can help cultivate a new life centered on Jesus’ way of dying to an old self and daily rising to a new self?