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Leaving
▾ Start:
Entice: Why do people leave the Church?
In an unscientific review of what I’ve seen and heard in the past I come up with several categories...
▾ Entice: Why do people leave the Church?
Faith & Practice
• Faith & Practice?
Superiority/Inferiority Complex
• Superiority/Inferiority Complex?
Fatigue & disillusionment
• Fatigue & disillusionment?
Engage: Most who leave the Church would not think that they are leaving Jesus.
The question, though is not not what you or I think….
• Engage: Most who leave the Church would not think that they are leaving Jesus.
The question, though is not not what you or I think….
What does Jesus think?
• What does Jesus think?
Expand: Jesus teaches & leads right to the brink.
He does not sell one kind of discipleship and deliver another.
Even here in He makes the stakes very clear.
Expand: Jesus teaches & leads right to the brink.
He does not sell one kind of discipleship and deliver another.
Even here in He makes the stakes
very clear.
Our decision to stay with Him or to leave Him is a life/death decision.
▾Our decision to stay with Him or to leave Him is a life/death decision.
So it is much easier to make excuses about the Church…
▾ So it is much easier to make excuses about the Church…
"I don't like how they do fill in the blank".
• "I don't like how they do X".
"They just make me feel bad" Or "I'm better than that."
• "They just make me feel bad" Or "I'm better than that."
"I'm.
Too.
Tired."
• "I'm.
Too.
Tired."
Excite: I'm not equating "leaving the Church" 100% with leaving Jesus.
But let me ask you this…
▾ Excite: I'm not equating "leaving the Church" 100% with leaving Jesus.
But let me ask you this…
Once You get into the business of quitting….
• Once You get into the business of quitting….where
do you quit?
Where do you quit quitting?
Why would anyone leave Jesus?
• Explore: Why would anyone leave Jesus.
Explain: There are may reasons to leave Jesus, and just one to stay.
Let's compare and contrast them.
• Explain: here are may reasons to leave Jesus, and just one to stay.
Let's compare and contrast them.
▾ Body of Sermon
1 There are Many Reasons to Leave.
▾ 1 There are Many Reasons to Leave.
1.1 Familiarity Breeds Contempt.
▾ 1.1 Familiarity Breeds Contempt.
41-47
John 6.41-47
1.1.1
They thought they knew Him… but appearances can be deceiving!
• 1.1.1
Appearances can be deceiving!
1.1.2
Sometimes we listen but we do not hear.
We complain without consideration, we decide without discrimination.
• 1.1.2
Sometimes we listen but we do not hear.
1.2 We don't Like the Answers.
▾ 1.2 We don't Like the Answers.
48-59
John 6.48-59
1.2.1 Too much information.
(Manna, Moses and heritages of faith)
• 1.2.1 Too much information.
1.2.2
We miss the obvious.
• 1.2.2
We miss the obvious.
1.2.3
We like to keep our distance.
(Impersonal, in our control)
• 1.2.3
We like to keep our distance.
(Impersonal, in our control)
1.3 It is Hard.
▾ 1.3 It is Hard.
60-66
John 6.60-66
• 1.3.1 G.K. Chesterton…“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
G.K. Chesterton
• 1.3.2
The issue is not information…but submission, not understanding, but obedience.
1.3.2
The issue is not information…but submission, not understanding, but obedience.
1.3.2
The issue is not information…but submission, not understanding, but obedience.
▾ 2 There is one Reason to Stay.
2 There is one Reason to Stay.
Jesus has the Words of Eternal Life
Jesus has the Words of Eternal Life
▸ 2.1 Jesus has the Words of Eternal Life
Jesus is not afraid to look into our hearts and to ask us a single, essential question.
A question that should make our ears tingle and our hearts tremble.
1 Jesus is not afraid to look into our hearts and to ask us a single, essential question.
A question that should make our ears tingle and our heart tremble.
"Are you leaving too?”
• 1 Jesus is not afraid to look into our hearts and to ask us a single, essential question.
A question that should make our ears tingle and our heart tremble.
"Are you leaving too?!?"
Every Single one of us, regardless of our tenure has at one time or another looked for a reason, an excuse to bail on Jesus.
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