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Repenting of Religion

Repenting of Religion. Dietrich Bonhoffer “Jesus calls people, not to a new religion, but to life.”. Repenting of religion – Overview. Part 1: THE TRINITY AND THE GOAL OF CREATION Part 2 : THE FORBIDDEN TREE Part 3: THE LIE AND THE CURSE Part 4: LIVING IN LOVE.

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Repenting of Religion

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  1. Repenting ofReligion Dietrich Bonhoffer “Jesus calls people, not to a new religion, but to life.”

  2. Repenting of religion – Overview Part 1: THE TRINITY AND THE GOAL OF CREATION Part 2: THE FORBIDDEN TREE Part 3: THE LIE AND THE CURSE Part 4: LIVING IN LOVE bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  3. Repenting of religion – part 2 THE FORBIDDEN TREE • Becoming the Centre • Love and Religion • Love and Judgement bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  4. Repenting of religionLove and religion REVIEW… • God is for us, before us and through us ALL • AUWSOM… bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  5. Repenting of religionLove and religion OVERVIEW… • Love & Life • Fat & Folly • Seed or Fruit bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  6. Repenting of religionLove and religion LOVE & LIFE… • Marriage - Love or Ethical? • Loveless Marriage • One in Spirit Eph. 5:21-32 bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  7. Repenting of religionlove and religion Ephesians 5:21-32 (NIV) - Instructions for Christian Households 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. … 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. … bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  8. Repenting of religionLove and religion FAT & FOLLY… • We are ALL Idolaters 1 Cor. 13:1-3 • Gluttons and Gays 1 Cor. 6:19 • Empty religious IdolatryMatt. 21:31; Rom. 2:1-4 bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  9. Repenting of religionlove and religion Romans 2:1-4 (NIV) God’s Righteous Judgment 2 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  10. Repenting of religionLove and religion SEED OR FRUIT… • Impotent Law Rom. 7:12; 5:20; 7:5-11 • Law Leads to Jesus Col. 2:16-17 • Ethics & the NT 1 Cor. 13:4-5; Gal. 5:22-23 bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  11. Repenting of religionlove and religion Colossians 2:16-17 (GNT) 16 So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath. 17 All such things are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ. bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  12. Repenting of religionlove and religion Questions… • When you were young, which of your parents was more strict? Merciful? Consistent? • Read Romans 2:1-17. • From the passage, who were the outsiders? Why? When Paul accusing the readers of doing the “same things” (v.3), is he referring to specific sins or the root cause of sin? • As you grow older in your faith, are you more likely to bask in grace or become more rigid? bruce@warwickcoc.org.au or 0412 168 496

  13. Repenting ofReligion Dietrich Bonhoffer “Jesus calls people, not to a new religion, but to life.”

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