Zombies Are Among Us!

“Aren’t we all just a little undead?”

Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that

do I.

Rom 7:24 O wretched man

that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Sin is not about INDIVIDUAL actions, but the human perdicament…

When we minimize sin to a LIST we end up covering up the

real problem …

We must deal with the infection … the

contagion that takes root in our being!

Everyone has an inner Zombie!

The Goal: Communication

We must be able to communicate the message of God’s Word in a way our current culture can understand … if we are serious about being RELEVANT!

Genesis 2 and 3 is a story … once the

fruit was ingested … of the walking

DEAD!

So….

…Let’s harness the conversation. It is a

chance to engage our culture in

Biblical stories from a new angle…

What theological depth can be

discovered if we engage age-old questions in its contemporary

setting?

We must reframe how we present truth to

what people are already discussing to get their attention!

Zombie situations have a source

Genesis 5:3

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a

son in his own likeness, after his

image; and called his name Seth:

Romans 5:12

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,

for that all have sinned:

Why didn’t Adam and Eve die when they ate the fruit?

They Did!!They became the

walking dead!!

How do we keep from acting like the living dead?

How do we become NOT one of the walking dead?

John 3:16 / Romans 3:23 / Romans 6:23 / Romans 10:9,10,13

Romans 6:1-1417-19

Characteristics of a Zombie

1. A Zombie’s being is committed to the fulfillment of his desire.

2. Zombies disregard their own well being and well being of

others to get what they want.3. Zombies have a mindless

commitment to their herds, which are always destructive,

and they don’t know it.

Living with Zombies…

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and

adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with

God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy

of God.

Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil

you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the

rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead

with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject

to ordinances,