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IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Darrow L. Miller Disciple Nations Alliance. Ideas Have Consequences. Learner Objective This session is designed to help the learner understand the inseparable relationship between beliefs, values, behaviors, and their resulting consequences. Outline

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IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

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  1. IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES Darrow L. Miller Disciple Nations Alliance

  2. Ideas Have Consequences Learner Objective This session is designed to help the learner understand the inseparable relationship between beliefs, values, behaviors, and their resulting consequences. Outline • Discovery Bible study of Romans 1:18-31 • Giving up wisdom for vanity • Review

  3. Definitions Beliefs: one’s mindset or understanding of reality Values: the things one thinks are good, beautiful, valuable Behavior: one’s willful actions Consequences: the result of our behavior DNA: genetic code (instructions) for shaping living things

  4. Four Steps Towards the Great ExchangeRomans 1:21 • They did not glorify Him as God • They were not thankful to Him • Their thinking became futile (empty or vain) • Their foolish hearts were darkened (or hardened)

  5. The Great Exchange in WorshipRomans 1:22-23 The glory of the immortal God THEISM Mortal man Nature SECULARISM ANIMISM

  6. Romans1:18-31 God is angry because men rejected the truth verse 18 In general revelation --man --creation verses 19-20 Man’s response verse 21 Giving up wisdom for vanity verse 22

  7. Romans 1:18-31 cont. Exchanging belief systems 23 25 28 A change in values 24 26-27 28b-31 Wicked behavior 24 26-27 28b-31 Summary 32

  8. Ideas Have Consequences FRUIT BRANCHES TRUNK ROOTS Consequences Behavior Values Beliefs

  9. Spitting in God’s Face But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being.

  10. Spitting in God’s Face cont. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.

  11. Spitting in God’s Face cont. So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshipped the god they made instead of the God who made them-the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

  12. Spitting in God’s Face cont. Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either-women didn’t know how to be women, men didn’t know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men-all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it-emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.

  13. Spitting in God’s Face cont. Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care-worse, then hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!

  14. The Great Exchange in ThinkingRomans 1:25 What is real? What is man? Where is history going? What is “nature”? TRUTH LIE Biblical TheismSecularism & Animism God & creation The image of God! Toward God’s Kingdom Creation ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  15. Creating RipplesFrom Paradigm to Practice Program Principle Policy Program Paradigm

  16. Like Dominoes Beliefs Values Behavior Consequences

  17. Thoughts Influence Events Program Values Behavior Consequences Beliefs

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