Here We Still Stand-Jeff Mallinson

I am going to use religion in a negative way. There’s Jesus and then there’s religion.
  • You are invited to sit. (Mary and Martha-Luke 10:38-42)
    • We often think of church as being busy and working hard rather than sitting at the feet of Jesus.
    • We need to hear the Master’s Voice
  • You are invited to sell. (Rich Young Ruler-Luke 18:18-23)
    • Jesus is saying why are you clinging to these things that can’t save you or make you happy or make you better.
    • They were asking the wrong question—what must I DO to be saved?
    • Jesus spoke Law to the Rich Young Ruler so he would see it was not about him but about Jesus.
  • You are invited to hate your parents (Matthew 12:46-50; Luke 14:26)
    • In the kingdom of God, it is a kingdom of priests. We are all on equal footing.
    • It’s not about honoring your parents. 
    • You are free to do what you need to do.
    • Luther’s treatise on Christian liberty
    • If something is standing between you and the good news of Jesus, you can hate it.
    • Last Jedi-young people like the force but they can’t trust the Jedi. Why? Because other Jedis have hurt them in the past.
    • Justification by faith alone through grace alone in Christ alone.
    • God is in the Public Domain

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