So what's the deal with Disciplines?
So what is the real issue with Discipline?
2 Timothy 3:1-7
Introduction:
How many of you have been watching the Katrina aftermath? I know that I am amazed at the devastation that has hit our country. I was thinking the other day, “Man we should have sent a shuttle or something up in the eye of that storm and break it up. (I saw that on a movie once. It was a storm but an asteroid but I thought hey if we can break up an asteroid just think what we could do with a bunch of clouds.) I know what you are thinking. Pastor you have lost your mind. Well, maybe so. It just amazes me how much we have progressed and yet how much we still don’t know.
Have you noticed that knowledge is almost unfathomable? I am so amazed, almost daily, of how much some people know. We are truly in, an information driven society. And, don’t misunderstand me, I love being able to, at any time, turn news on and find out what is literally happening all over the world. And, to not only hear it but to have color pictures that take you to the point of being there. Discipline is an ugly word in the world today. Many people spend most of their lives trying to achieve it without actually doing anything to achieve it. In fact, as we will learn this morning, we spend more time learning how to be disciplined than actually being discipline.
I. The Issue hasn’t changed
a. Satan began with pumping knowledge.
i. Gen 2:8-9
ii. Gen 2:15-17
iii. Gen 3:1-5
b. Things have not changed
i. We now have 10’s of thousand conferences.
1. Now I’m not against conferences.
2. They are an extreme source of encouragement.
3. The issue is what are we doing with all that we know?
II. So if things have not changed, how can we change?
a. Dietrich Bonhoeffer-a German Theologian, who’s prophetic voice showed us what it was like to be a Christian under Hitler’s regime. “
i. “When Christ calls a man, he bids come and die.”
1. Now I know all of your minds went to an old Hymnal called, Come and Dine the Master Calleth, Come and Dine.
ii. Jesus say in 3 of the Gospels, “Take up your cross and follow me.”
1. Cross-greek-exposure to death.
III. Finishing Well-Luke 14:25-ff.
a. God is not only interested in you starting the race but finishing.
i. And, not only finishing….but finishing WELL.
2 Timothy 3:1-7
Introduction:
How many of you have been watching the Katrina aftermath? I know that I am amazed at the devastation that has hit our country. I was thinking the other day, “Man we should have sent a shuttle or something up in the eye of that storm and break it up. (I saw that on a movie once. It was a storm but an asteroid but I thought hey if we can break up an asteroid just think what we could do with a bunch of clouds.) I know what you are thinking. Pastor you have lost your mind. Well, maybe so. It just amazes me how much we have progressed and yet how much we still don’t know.
Have you noticed that knowledge is almost unfathomable? I am so amazed, almost daily, of how much some people know. We are truly in, an information driven society. And, don’t misunderstand me, I love being able to, at any time, turn news on and find out what is literally happening all over the world. And, to not only hear it but to have color pictures that take you to the point of being there. Discipline is an ugly word in the world today. Many people spend most of their lives trying to achieve it without actually doing anything to achieve it. In fact, as we will learn this morning, we spend more time learning how to be disciplined than actually being discipline.
I. The Issue hasn’t changed
a. Satan began with pumping knowledge.
i. Gen 2:8-9
ii. Gen 2:15-17
iii. Gen 3:1-5
b. Things have not changed
i. We now have 10’s of thousand conferences.
1. Now I’m not against conferences.
2. They are an extreme source of encouragement.
3. The issue is what are we doing with all that we know?
II. So if things have not changed, how can we change?
a. Dietrich Bonhoeffer-a German Theologian, who’s prophetic voice showed us what it was like to be a Christian under Hitler’s regime. “
i. “When Christ calls a man, he bids come and die.”
1. Now I know all of your minds went to an old Hymnal called, Come and Dine the Master Calleth, Come and Dine.
ii. Jesus say in 3 of the Gospels, “Take up your cross and follow me.”
1. Cross-greek-exposure to death.
III. Finishing Well-Luke 14:25-ff.
a. God is not only interested in you starting the race but finishing.
i. And, not only finishing….but finishing WELL.
posted by Pastor Scott King @ Monday, September 12, 2005
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