LHC Sermon C
- 1. Learning the Alphabets of God’s Kingdom in the 21 st Century C
- 2. C Church for
- 4. Not a people who are ‘going to heaven’
- 5. Not a people who keeps holy rules…
- 6. Do go to church Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday night, and for extra credit, partake in Monday-night visitation Do tithe 10% of your gross earnings Do read your Bible a minimum of five days a week before sunrise Do vote Republican (BN? Opposition?) Christian Checklists
- 7. Do be heterosexual Do evangelize, but don’t fraternize with the ‘lost’. Don’t smoke – pipes, cigars or cigarettes – or chew, dip, or otherwise enjoy tobacco (or alcohol) Don’t listen to secular music Don’t entertain inappropriate jokes…except the ones that make fun of other religions and denominations Christian Checklists
- 8. Don’t disagree with your church pastor, elders or staff; they know more than you do. Don’t forget to tithe Don’t go back to bed when your alarm rings for predawn Bible time. Do confess sin to get right again with God if you screw up Christian Checklists
- 10. Not a people who have ‘the Truth’
- 11. Not a people who have a ‘personal relationship with God’
- 12. “ (By) abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations, Jesus’ purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace…” Ephesians 2:15
- 13. So what is ‘Church’?
- 14. A World- On-The-Way …
- 15. An Outpost from Another World
- 17. A New Kind of Humanity
- 18. “ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God .” 2Cor 5:21
- 19. i.e…
- 20. We ARE the righteousness of God !
- 21. The church embodies God’s intentions for the world as reflected in Jesus Christ
- 22. Grace for ALL, especially those who are different…
- 23. What’s Good News for this person?
- 24. What’s Good News for creation?
- 25. What’s Good News for Culture ?
- 26. The Church exists primarily for its NON-members! world self church
- 27. Suffering with the weak
- 28. Suffering for the Oppressor
- 30. "We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. ”
- 31. "We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust law….”
- 32. "Throw us in jail and we shall still love you . Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you. ”
- 33. "But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall win freedom but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory." Martin Luther King, Jr.