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January 14, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted /*
*Part 2: An Equipped Life: the practice of Scripture*
/Introduction:/ “I have never known someone leading a spiritually transformed life who had not been deeply saturated in Scripture.”
God’s Word has the power to transform our thinking and equip us to live the life we’ve always wanted.
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Read for ________________________________________________________.
John 5:39-40
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Read for ________________________________________________________.
Let it ___________________________________________. 2 Timothy 3:15
Let it ________________________________________. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Let it _____________________________________________.
Romans 12:2
Let it __________________________________.
Ephesians 5:26, John 15:3
Let it _____________________________________________.
Hebrew 4:12
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How to do it:
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Ask God to _________________________________________________.
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Read with __________________________________________________.
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Reflect on __________________________________________________.
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Take _____________________________________ with you for the day.
January 14, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted /*
*Part 2: An Equipped Life: the practice of Scripture*
*/Opening: /*Pop quiz:
Have you ever been talking with someone and didn’t know what to say, and then later it comes to you?
Have you ever faced a decision and were stumped—you didn’t know what to do?
Have you ever messed up your life by thinking or believing the wrong things?
Knowing what to say, what to do, what to believe—does that sound good?
That’s the life you’ve always wanted.
It is the equipped life.
How do you get it?
*2 Timothy 3:16-17 *All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, *17 *so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The equipped life comes from the practice of Scripture.
Building your life on God’s Word will equip you to live the life you’ve always wanted.
Today we’re going to talk about how to do that.
*/Offering and announcements:/*
Classes: Love and Respect, Alpha, LG leaders.
Life Groups
Tomorrow is a national holiday; our offices will be closed in honor of Martin Luther King.
We honor Dr. King because of his enormous contributions to the cause of racial reconciliation, justice and equality.
But there is still much to be done.
Perhaps the best way to remember and honor Dr. King would be to further his work.
So let me give everyone a simple assignment.
This week, find someone different than you—different race, different culture, different faith, different group—and go out of your way to get to know that person.
We all tend to gravitate to people like ourselves, and be suspicious of those who are different, so we avoid them and we end up segregated.
We put up walls, when we ought to build bridges.
So, in honor of Dr. King, build a bridge this week.
Look for someone different and go out of your way to get to know them.
*/Introduction:/*
Please look at the introductory statement at the top of your outline.
“I have never known someone leading a spiritually transformed life who had not been deeply saturated in Scripture.”
John Ortburg said that…but I say it too.
Everyone I
\\ know who is being spiritually transformed is getting in the Word, and the Word is getting in them.
Our youth ministries train our kids to “know the Word, love the Word, live the Word.”
/Say that with me, please.
/When you know the Word, love the Word and live the Word, you grow, you change, and you get equipped to live the life you’ve always wanted.
This series, /The Life You’ve Always Wanted/, is about life transformation through spiritual disciplines.
We change not my trying harder, but by training, by using some time-tested practices that help us connect with God.
If you want to read more about spiritual disciplines, these three books are at our resource center.
*(Slide of books) *Last Sunday, we talked about the practice of slowing to have an unhurried life.
Today, the practice of Scripture to have an equipped life.
If you want to know the Word, love the Word, and live the Word, you’ve got to dig in.
Flip your outline over and you’ll see “Seven Ways to Interact with God’s Word.”
I’m not going to read all those verses—you can go over those at home—I just want to quickly describe these seven ways to dig in to God’s word.
1. *Hear*.
Prior to the printing press, this is how most people got the Word.
They heard it read at church.
We still hear Scripture each Sunday at church, but if that is all of the Bible you’re getting, it’s not enough.
You can also hear the Word on CD, tape or MP3; I know some people who listen to the Bible in their cars during their daily commute.
2. *Read*.
I think every Christian ought to read through the whole Bible at least once, and preferably many times.
If you’ve never read through the whole Bible, there is a simple Bible-reading plan in our journal (which you can pick up at the Resource Center or on our website).
You can read through the whole Bible in a year reading 3-4 chapters a day (Bible chapters are short—that’s usually only 3-4 pages, and takes most people 10-20 minutes.)
3. *Study*.
This is where you dig deeper.
Get a /dictionary/ and look up the meaning of a word.
Get a /concordance/ and look up all the places where that word is used in the Bible.
Get a /commentary/ that discusses the history or background of a passage.
Get a /study Bible/ and look up cross-references that point you to verses with similar ideas.
Dig in and study!
4. *Memorize*.
Commit a verse to memory, and make it yours.
How many of you can’t memorize diddly?
Memory is a function of interest more than ability.
All of you guys who are dating—what’s your girlfriend’s phone number?
Ok, what’s her speed dial number on your phone?
You can remember if it’s important to you.
Some people do seem to have better memory abilities, but that comes from practice; your memory muscles will get better with use.
When you memorize a verse, you’ll be surprised at the times God will bring it back to mind! You’ll be equipped!
5. *Meditate*.
This doesn’t mean that you assume the lotus position and chant!
To meditate is to muse, to ponder, to think, to chew on it.
We’re going to talk more about how to do this today.
6. *Obey*.
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