So I wanted to share some notes from this class too, but there is just soo much in depth stuff that it might be kind of overwhelming. So I am going to share with you the intro to the different sections of the outline we used: Creation, The Fall and Redemption. I just think it's really beautiful.
Creation
We were sinless, limited, dependent image-bearers
who lived under the reigning King and Father
ho were tested, as royal children are, and
who knew there was more to come
The Fall
We prefer to live out of bounds
So we are sent out of bounds
exiled from the land of the King
choosing to live in the land of the dark lord,
We are treasonous image makers
Yet there is evidence that things will change.
We are created in the image of God.
We are still alive.
Something is going to happen.
Something must happen.
Redemption
The Servant-King has come
He has surprised us and come in the middle of history
He shows us what it means to be human
In his death he liberates us from the evil one
and makes humanness possible
His reign brings the new covenant
The fulfillment of all the promises
Everything is now brought together in Christ
Look and see glory all around
“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Pet.2:9)
People are coming together
With patience, kindness and forgiveness
Glory and renewal come in ways we didn’t expect
Through wisdom that looks weak
Through dying
Through trouble
and, yes, we continue to sin
Glorification
The King throws an eternal banquet
Lavish
Free
Everything is
Personal
Alive
In Christ
Sin and death are Vanquished
"Death is swallowed up in victory"
Shalom is in the air
Love is in our hearts
"Welcome Home"
Soon
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Monday, December 06, 2010
Looking back over class notes...
From Dynamics of Biblical Change (David Powlison)and in no particular order:
- PAST-tense grace shows that He is for you, persuasion that His mercies are yours
- PRESENT-tense grace demonstrates He is with you, persuasion that He is on scene with powerful, necessary help
- FUTURE-tense grace promises that He will come for you, persuasion that He will make right all wrongs, bringing all joy
- Wisdom is not in knowing things, it is knowing the relationship between things.
- The glory of God is not some absolute standard we cannot reach, it is the difference between who we are and who we would have been without Him.
- There is only one kind of perfectionism that is true: “When we see Him, we shall be like Him.”
- Some people are in the season of leaps and bounds, huge transformations and glory stories. Some are just in steady growth, sanctification and feeling like you are getting somewhere. But there are a lot of times where it is hard to put one step in front of the other. You are creeping, pulling yourself by your fingernails. But as long as you are moving the right direction, it doesn’t matter! You could be riding a motorbike but if you are not facing the right direction you will not be getting closer.
- We say 20-30,000 words every day! I don’t think we plan very many of them. But yet every single one of them is communicating something. Something that is either good or evil. Small talk, in principal can be one of two fundamentally different things. It can be a way of loving people, building bridges toward them, or a way to say “I don’t know you and I don’t want you to know about me so let’s talk about the Phillies and the weather.” Talking about the Phillies can be an act of love or an act of distancing.
- When is a principal, you can draw a line a divide it. When something is a process –it’s a mess!
- “When you read the gospels, every single scene, every single story, if you take it apart you will see clear, unmistakable revelation that Jesus is God, and you will see clear unmistakable revelation that Jesus is man, and He is like you.”
- Foundationally, God changes you. Truth changes you. Situation changes you. Wise people change you. Still, you change. You do it! It is 100% every one of those things!
- Forgiveness is not forgetting. It is what you do with what you remember.
- The Christian life is like a yo-yo. And it is held in the hands of a man who is walking upstairs. The goal of the Christian life is not to find the secret that will make the man throw it up into the window of the second story… the goal is to shorten the string.
These are just quotes that strike me again as I read over them, but please, if you get a chance, TAKE THIS CLASS. ccef.org
- PAST-tense grace shows that He is for you, persuasion that His mercies are yours
- PRESENT-tense grace demonstrates He is with you, persuasion that He is on scene with powerful, necessary help
- FUTURE-tense grace promises that He will come for you, persuasion that He will make right all wrongs, bringing all joy
- Wisdom is not in knowing things, it is knowing the relationship between things.
- The glory of God is not some absolute standard we cannot reach, it is the difference between who we are and who we would have been without Him.
- There is only one kind of perfectionism that is true: “When we see Him, we shall be like Him.”
- Some people are in the season of leaps and bounds, huge transformations and glory stories. Some are just in steady growth, sanctification and feeling like you are getting somewhere. But there are a lot of times where it is hard to put one step in front of the other. You are creeping, pulling yourself by your fingernails. But as long as you are moving the right direction, it doesn’t matter! You could be riding a motorbike but if you are not facing the right direction you will not be getting closer.
- We say 20-30,000 words every day! I don’t think we plan very many of them. But yet every single one of them is communicating something. Something that is either good or evil. Small talk, in principal can be one of two fundamentally different things. It can be a way of loving people, building bridges toward them, or a way to say “I don’t know you and I don’t want you to know about me so let’s talk about the Phillies and the weather.” Talking about the Phillies can be an act of love or an act of distancing.
- When is a principal, you can draw a line a divide it. When something is a process –it’s a mess!
- “When you read the gospels, every single scene, every single story, if you take it apart you will see clear, unmistakable revelation that Jesus is God, and you will see clear unmistakable revelation that Jesus is man, and He is like you.”
- Foundationally, God changes you. Truth changes you. Situation changes you. Wise people change you. Still, you change. You do it! It is 100% every one of those things!
- Forgiveness is not forgetting. It is what you do with what you remember.
- The Christian life is like a yo-yo. And it is held in the hands of a man who is walking upstairs. The goal of the Christian life is not to find the secret that will make the man throw it up into the window of the second story… the goal is to shorten the string.
These are just quotes that strike me again as I read over them, but please, if you get a chance, TAKE THIS CLASS. ccef.org
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Tell me something
tell me
what's your story?
what motivated you
to wake up this morning
with the rest of us
and what is it
that compels your feet
to take another step?
when you cry
who is your Comforter?
when you laugh
what is your secret joy?
that glimmer in your eye
where did it come from?
when the sun shone
in your life
What did it illuminate?
that made you catch your breath
bow your knees
and whisper
where was that moment
that made your heart dance
the way it does
and what Divine Instrument
put that song on your lips?
tell me
who are you my friend?
I used to think I knew you
but now I want to know
Who hides inside your smile?
what's your story?
what motivated you
to wake up this morning
with the rest of us
and what is it
that compels your feet
to take another step?
when you cry
who is your Comforter?
when you laugh
what is your secret joy?
that glimmer in your eye
where did it come from?
when the sun shone
in your life
What did it illuminate?
that made you catch your breath
bow your knees
and whisper
where was that moment
that made your heart dance
the way it does
and what Divine Instrument
put that song on your lips?
tell me
who are you my friend?
I used to think I knew you
but now I want to know
Who hides inside your smile?
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Reflection
That still moment
when the waters calm
and all those colors dancing wildly across the ripples
pull themselves together
to create a seamless picture.
When the Jesus stands up
and commands
Be still.
The storm ceases
the waves are swallowed
back into the deep.
The sea turns to glass
and in the stillness
the King looks over the edge of the boat
and in the mirror of our souls
He sees Himself.
when the waters calm
and all those colors dancing wildly across the ripples
pull themselves together
to create a seamless picture.
When the Jesus stands up
and commands
Be still.
The storm ceases
the waves are swallowed
back into the deep.
The sea turns to glass
and in the stillness
the King looks over the edge of the boat
and in the mirror of our souls
He sees Himself.
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