Showing posts with label mark driscoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mark driscoll. Show all posts
you're not the hero
"The story for every Christian is, “I failed. He’s faithful.” Whenever we tell the story of God’s involvement and investment in our life, the plot line has to be: “I failed. Jesus didn’t.”...You’re not the hero of your life. I’m not the hero of my life. We’re the villains. Jesus is the hero...The reality is that we’re all failures and have horrible and bad things in our past. The good news is that—while we can and should face justice and the consequences of our actions in this life—we’re not too far out of the reach of God’s great and saving grace. No one is."
Mark Driscoll, We're the villain, Jesus is the hero (read the full thing here)
we don't need religion
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video: Gods generousity and our false saviours
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messiah
"God’s Messiah will bring righteousness where there is injustice, beauty where there is devastation, peace where there is conflict, unity where there is division, forgiveness where there is sin, healing where there is sickness, and worship where there is idolatry. He will defeat the evil powers, reverse the curse of the fall, give fullness of life in place of death, and restore harmony to all creation"
Mark Driscoll, Doctrine
better
"Jesus is a better Noah who brings judgment of sin, salvation by grace to the family of God, and a new world free of sin and its effects.
Jesus is a better Abraham, the blessing to the nations of the earth.
Jesus is a better Moses as God’s prophet who fulfilled the law for us, allows God’s wrath to pass over us because of his shed blood, conquered our pharaoh of Satan, redeemed us from sin, and journeys with us toward home despite our sin and grumbling.
And Jesus is a better David who is seated on a throne ruling as the King of kings and is coming again to establish his eternal and global kingdom of peace and prosperity."
Jesus is a better Abraham, the blessing to the nations of the earth.
Jesus is a better Moses as God’s prophet who fulfilled the law for us, allows God’s wrath to pass over us because of his shed blood, conquered our pharaoh of Satan, redeemed us from sin, and journeys with us toward home despite our sin and grumbling.
And Jesus is a better David who is seated on a throne ruling as the King of kings and is coming again to establish his eternal and global kingdom of peace and prosperity."
Mark Driscoll, Doctrine
common grace
"The food we eat, the air we breathe, the streets we walk, the cars we drive, the books we read, the buildings we erect, the universities we establish—all these good things in life have been possible because God constantly upholds a safe place for humanity to multiply and have dominion."
Mark Driscoll, Doctrine
victory over sin
"mere behavioral change is not sufficient to remedy the human condition. Instead, we need a new heart and nature, what the Bible calls regeneration or new birth, followed by ongoing sanctification into Christlikeness if there is to be any true victory over sin in our lives."
Mark Driscoll, Doctrine
video - public faith
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video - your unpaid debt
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election 2010
Remembering that, regardless of which party is in government or who is Prime Minister, we need to
- Pray for them (1 Tim. 2:1-2).
- Thank God for them (1 Tim. 2:1-2).
- Respect them (Rom. 13:7).
- Honour them (Rom. 13:7; 1 Pet. 2:17).
[The ideas in this post are mainly from this helpful blog by Joshua Harris about the US presidential election in 2008. Mark Driscoll also wrote an interesting post about the same event here.]
resurrection
"If Jesus is dead, then Christianity is dead. If Jesus is alive, then Christianity is alive. Paul himself declared as much in 1 Corinthians 15:17: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.”
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is no savior, no salvation, no forgiveness of sin, and no hope of resurrected eternal life. Apart from the resurrection, Jesus is reduced to yet another good but dead man and therefore is of no considerable help to us in this life or at its end. Plainly stated, without the resurrection of Jesus, the few billion people today who worship Jesus as God are gullible; their hope for a resurrection life after this life is the hope of silly fools who trust in a dead man to give them life. Subsequently, the doctrine of Jesus’ resurrection is, without question, profoundly significant and worthy of the most careful consideration and examination."
Mark Driscoll, taken from Resurrection: God saves (free chapter of the book Doctrine)
mark driscoll video - your filth and guilt
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vintage church - the missional church
"The missional church seeks to call both lost sinners to repent of their sin and religious people to repent of their religion for three reasons. First, both pursue righteousness apart from Jesus' grace, which is an offence to the gospel. Second, if only so-called sinners are called to repent, then these "sinners" wrongly think that the church is trying to make them into religious people, while the religious people fail to see that they are sinners too who need to repent and live humbly by grace. Third, it was the religious leaders whom Jesus most sharply rebuked and was most violently opposed by; if we are to follow the example of Jesus, we must be just as forthright with the religious while accepting that they will likely be our most vocal critics and opponents"
Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears, Vintage Church
thinking missionally
What do your non-christian friends/family/colleagues do in their free time?
What do they fear?
What are their ambitions and dreams?
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