
The practice of peacemaking is doing the hard work of forgiving our past, forging new patterns, and framing our pain in order to fulfill our
of loving God and others.
You cannot fulfill your
in life if you aren’t committed to the hard work of
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Genesis 37:2-11
are the stories we tell ourselves.
Every Young Man Dreams of Becoming A:
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With the wrong purpose:
- The King becomes a
- The Warrior becomes a
- The Prophet becomes a
- The Lover becomes an
Genesis 37:16-28
Genesis 39:20-23
Genesis 40:8, 14, 23
Genesis 41:39-40
Genesis 45:1-11
Genesis 50:15-21
1. Joseph
the past.
2. Joseph
new patterns.
3. Joseph
his pain.
Joseph did the hard work of forgiving his past, forging new patterns, and framing his pain in order to fulfill his purpose of loving God and others.
Raise your
from pleasure seeking and power hoarding to peacemaking.
Joseph’s story points to
’ story.
Joseph’s story can become
story.
To experience true-self living we have to experience our personal Joseph journey. We must embrace our gains and especially our losses. We must be grateful, and we must grieve. We must find that God was always with us, even in the death of what we wanted most. But God gives us resurrected life. Our cross experiences still happen. Suffering continues in our world and in our lives. We are not exempt. Jesus is not the chaplain of the American dream. Our life in Christ is not a wand that magically changes what we lived; nor does it magically insulate us from pain in the future. We cannot change the events of our past any more than Christ can change the fact of his suffering. But by faith our cross experiences are reinterpreted. They are seen as a way for a new kind of life to be born. —Plass & Cofield
In your groups this week, you are going to go on your own Joseph Journey.
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