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all things to all people
Chameleons for Christ?
• Ever struggle with blending in so well to your surroundings that hardly anyone knows you’re an apprentice of Jesus?– Christ adapted to us for a
different reason– Paul says we’re to mimic Jesus
and him for the same reason
• Ever struggle with blending in so well to your surroundings that hardly anyone knows you’re an apprentice of Jesus?– Christ adapted to us for a
different reason– Paul says we’re to mimic Jesus
and him for the same reason
1Cor 9 19-23Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn't just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!
The Art of Being Water
“You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put
water into the bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put
it into a teapot and it becomes a teapot. The
water can flow. The water
can crash. Be water, my friend.”
Third-Culture People“Being third culture is about
being water to a world that is deeply thirsty
when it comes to spirituality and meaning,
and is in need of adaptive and
contextualized language and forms when talking
about God and Christianity.”
DAVE GIBBONSThe Monkey & the Fish
Zondervan 2009
How Might God Be
Calling Us to
ADAPT to
a Second Great Depression?
How Might God Be
Calling Us to
ADAPT to
a Second Great Depression?
Being the love of Christ when lots of people–in our church and in our
community—are hurting financially
New opportunities to serve others as a Faith Village of heroic apprentices of Jesus
Being the love of Christ when lots of people–in our church and in our
community—are hurting financially
New opportunities to serve others as a Faith Village of heroic apprentices of Jesus
A Ripple Effect
Giving
Staffing
Ministries
“Creating a Faith Village” Project
Every crisis is a real opportunity for Christians to listen carefully to God and for more people to look to churches for practical help offered in love
A Ripple Effect
Giving
Staffing
Ministries
“Creating a Faith Village” Project
Every crisis is a real opportunity for Christians to listen carefully to God and for more people to look to churches for practical help offered in love
Really Love God?Then Really Love Thy Neighbor
“Ubuntu is a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of a being a person. It
means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for
interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous,
compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap
between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking for others. You are
powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children. This is God’s dream.”
Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream