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OneLife Church
Christian Worldview: Part 4 - Me First
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Ball Road Campus
7421 Ball Rd, Knoxville, TN 37931, USA
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http://www.onelifeknox.com/giveIndividualism:
The individual is the primary unit of reality, meaning, and authority.
The individual's desires, rights, goals, and self-expression take precedence over family, community, tradition, or institutions.
The belief that "the authentic self" is discovered by looking inward rather than upward to God or outward to community.
The individual is the primary unit of reality, meaning, and authority.
The individual's desires, rights, goals, and self-expression take precedence over family, community, tradition, or institutions.
The belief that "the authentic self" is discovered by looking inward rather than upward to God or outward to community.
The Lie: I have to think of me first.
The Truth: When life is all about me, I lose who I was meant to be.
The Truth: When life is all about me, I lose who I was meant to be.
1. Individualism pulls me away from relationship.
2. Individualism distorts freedom into self-indulgence.
3. Individualism leaves me empty.
4. Belonging restores what individualism stole.
The Christian Worldview Alternative: Belonging over isolation.
1. Evaluate my decision making.
2. Model belonging at home.
3. Pursue Christian community.
4. Come home to the Father.
START TALKING:
When you were growing up, how did you experience a perceived "reality" where you were the "main character" of the story? How did this shape an unrealistic worldview that the real world shattered?
When you were growing up, how did you experience a perceived "reality" where you were the "main character" of the story? How did this shape an unrealistic worldview that the real world shattered?
START THINKING:
Read Luke 15:11-20.
How does the younger brother essentially tell his Father, "I wish you were dead"?
What community did he walk away from in pursuit of his own desires and "authentic self"?
Where did it ultimately lead him and what did he eventually learn?
What restored him? More individualism or community?
Read Luke 15:11-20.
How does the younger brother essentially tell his Father, "I wish you were dead"?
What community did he walk away from in pursuit of his own desires and "authentic self"?
Where did it ultimately lead him and what did he eventually learn?
What restored him? More individualism or community?
START SHARING:
When have you experienced individualism pulling you away from relationship, family, or Christian community?
Read Proverbs 25:16 and James 5:5. How do these verses warn us against turning freedom into self-indulgence? When have you finally experienced freedom in an area only to find out that on your own it was actually quite dangerous?!
When have you experienced what the prodigal son did - that individualism and freedom actually led you to being quite empty? How did experiencing "belonging" with a community once again lead you back to where and what you were meant to be?
When have you experienced individualism pulling you away from relationship, family, or Christian community?
Read Proverbs 25:16 and James 5:5. How do these verses warn us against turning freedom into self-indulgence? When have you finally experienced freedom in an area only to find out that on your own it was actually quite dangerous?!
When have you experienced what the prodigal son did - that individualism and freedom actually led you to being quite empty? How did experiencing "belonging" with a community once again lead you back to where and what you were meant to be?
START DOING:
Look over the "Christian Alternative" section toward the end of the sermon notes and read the passages. Then discuss how you will do each of these this week:
Evaluate my decision making.
Model belonging at home.
Pursue Christian community.
Come home to the Father.
How will taking each of the steps above help not only to grow your own faith but also open opportunity for you to share with your "one" and invite them to come experience Jesus with you?
Look over the "Christian Alternative" section toward the end of the sermon notes and read the passages. Then discuss how you will do each of these this week:
Evaluate my decision making.
Model belonging at home.
Pursue Christian community.
Come home to the Father.
How will taking each of the steps above help not only to grow your own faith but also open opportunity for you to share with your "one" and invite them to come experience Jesus with you?
START PRAYING:
Pray for each person in the microchurch to reject the lies of individualism, even where they sneak up on us in ways we may not even recognize or realize. Pray that each person looks upward to God and outward to community as or even before they also look inward to self. Pray that we build such a strong, Spirit-led community of faith that it becomes impossible to avoid or reject for those around us where we live, work, and play.
Pray for each person in the microchurch to reject the lies of individualism, even where they sneak up on us in ways we may not even recognize or realize. Pray that each person looks upward to God and outward to community as or even before they also look inward to self. Pray that we build such a strong, Spirit-led community of faith that it becomes impossible to avoid or reject for those around us where we live, work, and play.
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1. Follow Jesus! If you have followed Jesus...
2. Get baptized! If you are following Jesus, then that's all you need to be "ready" to take this step.
3. Volunteer! Don't simply be a consumer, but be part of making a difference in the lives of those who come to OneLife to experience Jesus. There are weekday and Sunday opportunities. Get info about what opportunities there are for you!
4. Join a micro church! You can't have true community sitting in rows with a large crowd. That's not the church - it's an event! Micro churches are small "churches" of 10-12 adults that meet in homes throughout the week to learn together, pray together, serve the community together, and care for each other together.
Get more information about any of the above, send us your prayer requests so we can pray with you, or ask any question we can help you with by filling out the online connection card!
http://www.onelifeknox.com/connect1. Follow Jesus! If you have followed Jesus...
2. Get baptized! If you are following Jesus, then that's all you need to be "ready" to take this step.
3. Volunteer! Don't simply be a consumer, but be part of making a difference in the lives of those who come to OneLife to experience Jesus. There are weekday and Sunday opportunities. Get info about what opportunities there are for you!
4. Join a micro church! You can't have true community sitting in rows with a large crowd. That's not the church - it's an event! Micro churches are small "churches" of 10-12 adults that meet in homes throughout the week to learn together, pray together, serve the community together, and care for each other together.
Get more information about any of the above, send us your prayer requests so we can pray with you, or ask any question we can help you with by filling out the online connection card!