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\nHow do you feel about change ?<\/p>\n
How not to be that\u2019s guy( petty) but this guy(
\nHow do you feel about change ?<\/p>\n
What words come to mind ?<\/p>\n
Read the lyrics to these two songs written by Bob Dylan – which one was written when he was young ? and which when he was old ? How can you tell ?<\/p>\n
Come gather ’round, people<\/em><\/p>\n
Wherever you roam<\/em><\/p>\n
And admit that the waters<\/em><\/p>\n
Around you have grown<\/em><\/p>\n
And accept it that soon<\/em><\/p>\n
You’ll be drenched to the bone<\/em><\/p>\n
If your time to you is worth savin’<\/em><\/p>\n
And you better start swimmin’<\/em><\/p>\n
Or you’ll sink like a stone<\/em><\/p>\n
For the times they are a-changin<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Standing on the gallows with \u2028my head in a noose<\/em>
\nAny minute now I\u2019m expecting \u2028all hell to break loose<\/em><\/p>\nPeople are crazy and times are strange<\/em>
\nI\u2019m locked in tight, I\u2019m out of range<\/em>
\nI used to care, but things have changed<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Pharisees are back again, and they stay through the rest of the story
\nPharisaism is a religious movement, consisting of lay people (not clergy) who share a deep commitment to the Hebrew Scriptures and traditions.<\/p>\nThey believe the Jewish people have not yet been freed from the Romans because of the Jews\u2019 tolerance of sin. There are too many drunks, prostitutes, and gluttons. \u201cIf we could just get these sinners to change their ways,\u201d they feel, \u201cthen God would send the One who will free us.\u201d They have hated the change that society had undergone. The jews were no longer in charge, The romans ran the world, built on slavery, there was no freedom of religion, the land that they were promised had been taken from them.<\/p>\n
Take turns reading aloud some of what the Pharisees say in Luke (Over page). What do they sound like ? What words would you use to describe them ? Would you want to hang with them ?<\/p>\n
I think they are being petty, and it worries me that I can see that tendancy towards being petty in my own life. <\/span>I don\u2019t want to be \u2018that Guy (or Gal). So I want to ask how do we avoid becoming petty ?<\/p>\n
Read the passage : Luke 5:27-39 (Take turns reading it – each read a verse)<\/p>\n
Three suggestions towards being Radica<\/b>l (Holding to the root, or core of something) without being Petty.<\/p>\n
1 ) Lean into Jesus.<\/b> (read Scripture & Pray)<\/p>\n
Read scripture, <\/span>(big hunks, don\u2019t worry if you don\u2019t get it).<\/p>\n
The act of reading keeps messing with our self obsession.<\/p>\n
Try reading Eph 1:17-23, Eph 3:17-20. <\/span><\/p>\n
Then say \u201cHe eats with tax collectors and Sinners\u201d,
\nSee how petty it sounds ? <\/span>What slights, or minor hurts or disagreements do you have, that in the light of God\u2019s majestic saving work, we might want to let go of ?<\/p>\n2) Listen to the outsider. (<\/b>Pull up a chair.)<\/p>\n
Jesus\u2019s practise of eating with sinners mean\u2019t that he kept hearing what life was like for them. When we do that we start to understand not just what we look like from outside, but what the world looks like to the fringes.<\/p>\n
3 ) Learn<\/b> (Hold Loosely to what you know).<\/p>\n
The pharisees problem is that they think they have all the answers. When we do that, we tend to make ourselves petty tyrants. At any moment in time we do not have all the answers.<\/p>\n
The early Baptist church Colin quotes made a covenant agreements to walk in \u201call his ways , made known, or to be made known unto them\u201d<\/p>\n
W<\/span>here have you been being challenged to learn of late ?<\/p>\n
What would you suggest to help you be radical and not petty ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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