Different
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” —Jesus, Matthew 7:13-14
Because Normal Isn’t Working
If you want what
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ [Exodus 20.14] But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” —Jesus, Matthew 5:27-28
“Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” —Jesus, Mark 9:35
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” —Jesus, Luke 6:27-28
“If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also.” —Jesus, Luke 6.29
Different people don’t think like normal people think.
“Don’t live any longer the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Then you will be able to test what God wants for you. And you will agree that what He wants is right.” —Romans 12.2, NIrV
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.” —Romans 12.2, The Message
- Time
- Money
- Relationships
- Sex
- Values
Different people don’t live like normal people live.
“Dear friends, I urge you, as alients & strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.” —1st Peter 2.11-12
TODO: Picture of John Mahaney
Practices
Solitude, Scripture, & Prayer: Daily Quiet Time. Eremos. Be with Jesus.
Sabbath & Community: Stop, rest, delight, & worship. Come back for Week Two of Different.
Witness: What does it look like for me to be different for Jesus?
“You cannot go back and change the beginning but you can can start where you are and change the ending” —C.S. Lewis
“For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” —Jesus, Matthew 16.25
“And that’s why I don’t want to go to a Church that ‘feeds’ me, in the way a predictable American Christian hears the word feeds. I want to be a part of one that makes me hungry – hungry enough to go all the way with this Gospel I say I believe. And nothing makes me hungry like the uncompromised proclamation and demonstration of the substitutionary death and explosive resurrection of Jesus, in the context of a community that lives as if it’s true.” —Mike Patz