DEEP CHURCH

Lent 2018 Week 5

‘Crawling off

the altar’:

Living the

cross-shaped life

Empty Cross

or

Crucifix

‘We are an Easter

People and Alleluia

is our song!’

John Paul II

‘The Crucified is

no stranger’

‘If anyone would

come after me, let

him deny himself and

take up his cross daily

and follow me’

Luke 9:23

‘DAILY’

“Sacrifice:

just a simple word”

Elton John

‘The problem with a

living sacrifice is that

it keeps crawling off

the altar’

D.L. Moody

The Problem of

SELF

The autonomous

self

‘Therefore I URGE you, in

view of God’s mercy, to

offer your bodies as living

sacrifices, HOLY AND

PLEASING to God – this is

your spiritual act of

worship.’ (Romans 12:1)

‘By bodies Paul doesn’t mean

only our skin and bones,

but the totality of which we

are composed, because our

bodies are the instruments

by which we perform our

actions.’ (Calvin)

‘Be holy because

I am holy’

(1 Peter 1:16)

Sanctification

‘Do not conform any

longer to the pattern

of this world, but be

transformed by the

renewing of your

mind’ (Romans 12:2)

Blueprint

‘Those God foreknew

he also predestined

to be conformed to

the image of his Son.’

Romans 8:29

Philippians 2: 1-14

(pew bibles p. 1179)

Being ‘conformed’

leads to being

‘transformed’

The Fruit of the

Spirit

Galatians 5: 16-25

(Pew bibles p. 1172)

karpos

Surrendering

Control

and

Abandonment

Prayer of Charles

de Foucauld

Father, I abandon

myself into your

hands; do with me

what you will.

Whatever you may do,

I thank you:

I am ready for all,

I accept all.

Let only your will be

done in me, and in

all your creatures -

I wish no more than this,

O Lord. Into your hands

I commend my soul:

I offer it to you with all

the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord,

and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into

your hands without

reserve, and with

boundless confidence,

for you are my Father.

Q & A

DEEP

CHURCH

Going deep into

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