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Teaching Outline
two roads
two roads
Two Rooms Analogy-Craig (5)
At some point all of us find ourselves at a fork in the road in our spiritual lives.
Pleasing God
Trusting God
You look at the trusting God sign you think it sounds good but doesn’t give me a lot to do.
It’s too passive.
If we’re going to do this Christian life we’re going to have to have something more than trust right?
So you look down the other road the pleasing God sign.
Now that makes sense right.
I mean the least we can do is please him.
So this path leads to the room of good intentions.
Man it is happening.
It is impressive.
Impressive, passionate people.
You are surprised to see that everyone in this room is wearing masks.
But they are immaculate and beautiful, like the mask they hand to you.
Everyone here is doing just fine, everyone is working on there sin and discipline and trying to keep God pleased with them.
There is an unspoken message in this room.
God loves you always, but he likes you a lot less when you mess up.
Still you join this impressive group of people, in this impressive room.
And really for the most part you actually are coming up to standard on must days.
Group Question:
You are doing OK.
You remember to read your Bible, your praying for others, you’ve even read a few chapters in that book that everyone is raving about.
God’s…God’s glad that your doing your to do list.
He’s not happy about your thoughts though, he’s disappointed at that.
If you were serious about your sin…you…you…would fix that.
After awhile you realize nobody in this room really knows you.
They know your mask, but they don’t really know what you look like behind your mask.
..They don’t know that your struggling, that despite all your sincerity, you don’t believe for a second that you can p lease God for a minute of your life.
You are exhausted, bluffing a faking your way, like you have it together.
So one night, when nobodies looking, you slip out the back.
Bone tired, and dejected and disillusioned.
You walk out on to the path until you hit the fork in the road again.
You walk out on to the path until you hit the fork in the road again.
Trusting God.
Hang head and sigh.
Well…if there is no other option, and you find yourself on the path the leads to the room of grace.
It is a lot less impressive room, but it is infinitely more inviting.
You are welcomed into this loud conversation and there are sincere smiles, not a mask to be seen anywhere.
These people are messy but honest.
They tell each pother the truth about themselves and nobody is trying to pretend that they have it all together.
There’s a silent message in this room too…It says, “God is delighted with you.” “Wild about you.”
Regardless of how you behave.
The people in this room seem to believe that God, loves them and likes them all the time.
Even when they mess up.
After awhile in this room, you find yourself slowly starting to tell the truth about yourself and the things you struggle with.
And you are shocked to discover, that God is right here in the midst of it, his arm tightly around you, enjoying you.
He smiles at you and he says, “You know, I really am big enough to handle your stuff, all of it.
It doesn’t surprise me, it doesn’t shock me, it never comes between you and me.
I am crazy in love with you.
On your very worst day.
Now listen to me, I just want you to trust me, with who I say you are, and I want you to learn to let other people love you with all your stuff.
It will free you, to love like crazy, because you will have experienced being loved.”
Group Question: (4)
Which room are you in?
How did you end up there?
Which room are you in?
How did you end up there?
Which room are you in?
How did you end up there?
Lead in Group Question: (4)
What would it take for you to know ________________?
What could get in the way of you knowing _____________?
What would it take for you to know ________________?
What could get in the way of you knowing _____________?
Helps & Hindrances to Intimacy with God (15)
Time
Negative: Craig
The present day spirituality of most people in our churches is marked, I believe, by a number of sad realities.
• We are busy, very busy.
• We live our lives “on the run”, squeezing God in where we can.
• We live off other people’s spirituality -- because we don’t have the time.
We’re overloaded and exhausted.
Words that describe our culture include: scattered, fragmented, un-centered, and distracted.
We multi-task, so much so that we are unaware we are doing three things at once.
We are always on the way to something or someplace else.
As a result, few people have the time to develop their own direct experience of God.
We have a lot of head knowledge about God but we much of it has not penetrated our hearts.
We sing and study about the love and goodness of God, but experientially, when things fall apart around us, we panic and act as like God doesn’t exist.
In fact, most people don’t really pray that much on their own.
Studies have shown that even the average pastor prays only about 7 minutes a day.
What does that say for the rest of our people?
Is it any wonder that most people are not very intentional about pursuing Jesus?
We live off whatever books, sermons, CD’s, or spiritual crumbs that comes our way.
We listen to sermons and read books about slowing down and creating margin in our lives.
We attend seminars.
We talk about spiritual disciplines.
But it is not enough.
We can’t stop.
This lack of time is killing our souls.
Is killing our knowledge of and desire for God.
Positive: Lisa
personal testimony
Desire
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