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GOSPEL who God is and what He does
CREATION GOD S IMAGE FALL BROKEN IMAGE FALSE SELF WHY? NEW CREATION RESTORED IMAGE REDEMPTION RESTORING IMAGE
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GOSPEL & IDENTITY Only in Christ am I my true self I am deeply loved in Christ
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Who we are and what we do repent & believe + baptism IDENTITY
repent & believe IDENTITY REPENT: The false self The time has come, he said. The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news! (Mark 1:15) BELIEVE: Only in Christ am I my true self I am deeply loved in Christ
HOW?
repent & believe To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: God, I thank you that I am not like other people robbers, evildoers, adulterers or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. (Luke 18:9-14 NIV)
repent & believe HOW NOT REPENT: The false self The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: God, I thank you that I am not like other people robbers, evildoers, adulterers or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. BELIEVE: Only in Christ am I my true self (Luke 18:11-12 NIV) I am deeply loved in Christ
repent & believe HOW? REPENT: The false self But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. BELIEVE: Only in Christ am I my true self (Luke 18:13 NIV) I am deeply loved in Christ
repent & believe HOW? REPENT: You see, at just the right time, when we were still The false self powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God BELIEVE: demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Only in Christ am I my true self powerless to become my true self (Rom. 5:6-8 NIV) I am deeply loved in Christ
repent & believe HOW? REPENT: You see, at just the right time, when we were still The false self powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God BELIEVE: demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Only in Christ am I my true self powerless to become my true self (Rom. 5:6-8 NIV) I am deeply loved in Christ as I am
repent & believe IDENTITY No fig leaves required. No fig leaves allowed. REPENT: If God loves and accepts you as a sinner, how can you do less? You can never be other than who you are until The false self you are willing to embrace the reality of who you are. Only then can you truly become who you are most deeply called to be. - David Benner BELIEVE: I can expose my true, broken self to God, and He already loves me now. He doesn t wait until I become better. God transforms me because he loves me, not so He can love me. Only in Christ am I my true self powerless to become my true self I am deeply loved in Christ as I am
repent & believe WHEN? REPENT: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Cor. 5:8 The false self I m in Christ And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:8 I m being made like Christ BELIEVE: Only in Christ am I my true self powerless to become my true self I am deeply loved in Christ as I am
IDENTITY GOSPEL Only in Christ am I my true self. I am deeply loved in Christ. COMMANDS + OF CHRIST repent & believe baptism
REPENT: The false self BELIEVE: Only in Christ am I my true self I am powerless to become my true self I am deeply loved in Christ as I am
Only in Christ am I my true self IDENTITY I am powerless to become my true self I am deeply loved in Christ as I am RESPONSE repent & believe with God, experience yourself as you are (Psalms) PRACTICE let God love you as you are (silence) let God transform you into your true self