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Following Jesus means accepting the invitation to live our ordinary lives in light of the extraordinary life of Jesus. The message was given on June 23, 2013 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, go to www.NewCityChurch.ca.
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Luke 6:12-19Today’s Scripture:
Page 862 in our guest Bibles.
CARPE DIEM.
Seize the day boys.
Make your lives
EXTRA-
ORDINARY.
What are you
LIVINGfor?
?
“The way we understand human life depends on
what conception we have of the human story.
What is the REAL STORY of
which MY LIFE STORY is a part?”
Turning the World
Upside Down
Luke 6:12-19
In these days he went out to the
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mountain to pray, and all night hecontinued in prayer to God....
PRAYERLESSNESSis our
DECLARATIONof
INDEPENDENCE from God.
And when day came, he called his
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disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles...
Discipledis·ci·ple
one who learns the teaching of the master
and does what the master does
Apostlea·pos·tle
someone who is sent to convey a message
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And when day came, he called his
LUKE 6:13-14
disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:
Andrew his brother, and James,Simon, whom he named Peter, and
and John, and Philip and
Bartholomew [Nathanael], and
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Matthew [Levi], and Thomas, andJames the son of Alphaeus, and
and Judas [Thaddeus], the son ofSimon who was called the Zealot,
James, and Judas Iscariot, who
LUKE 6:16
became a traitor....
For consider your calling, brothers: not
many of you were WISE according to worldly standards,
not many were POWERFUL, not many were of NOBLE birth.
The Apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
But God chose what is FOOLISH in the world to
shame the wise; God chose what is WEAK in the world to shame the
strong; God chose what is LOW and DESPISED in the world…so that no
human being might boast in the presence of God.
The Apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
And he came down with them and
LUKE 6:17-18
stood on a level place, with a greatcrowd of his disciples and a great
and Jerusalem and the seacoastmultitude of people from all Judea
of Tyre and Sidon, who came
to hear him and to be healed of
LUKE 6:18-19
their diseases. And those who weretroubled with unclean spirits were
to touch him, for power came outcured. And all the crowd sought
from him and healed them all....
“Wait a minute...
I just can’t believe in miracles.”
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“For we did not follow cleverly devised
myths when we made known to you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but we were EYEWITNESSES
of his majesty.”The Apostle Peter
~ 2 Peter 1:16
“That which was from the beginning, which
we have HEARD, which we have SEEN with our eyes, which we LOOKED UPON and TOUCHED with
our hands..., that which we have SEEN
and HEARD we proclaim to you....”
The Apostle John1 John 1:1-2
“Why is it thought INCREDIBLE by any of you that God raises the dead…? For the king KNOWS about these things, and to him I
speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of
these things escaped his notice, for this has NOT
HAPPENED in a corner.”
The Apostle PaulActs 26
Why does Luke include this story in his historical biography
of Jesus?
Important Question
Following Jesus means accepting the invitation to live our ordinary lives
in light of the extraordinary life of Jesus.
Answerthe question:
What am I living for?
1
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What is your life? For you are a MIST that appears for a
little while and then VANISHES.
~ James the brother of Jesus
in James 4:14
“I am…WAGERING MY LIFE on the faith that Jesus is the ULTIMATE AUTHORITY…. The Christian commitment is distinguished in that it is a commitment to a belief about the MEANING of the whole of HUMAN EXISTENCE in its
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...entirety—namely, the belief that this MEANING is to be found in the PERSON of Jesus Christ, incarnate, crucified, risen, and destined to reign over all things.”
~ Lesslie Newbigin
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2See yourself as a disciple
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2See yourself as a disciple
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I live my life in light of what Jesus
taught & what Jesus did.
3 Dream BIG!
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“The powerful play goes on, and YOU may contribute a verse.”
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