Go Deeper

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• Go Deeper!
• Ken Robinson

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• The Call
• The call is clear Go deeper! We are
  challenged to take our discipleship to another
  level, a deeper level. It is about our
  understanding of Jesus Christ and our
  relationship with him. It is about our living out
  those things that Jesus has taught us.p. 9

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• Jesus said at the end of the
• Sermon on the Mount
• Everyone then who hears these words of mine
  and acts on them will be like a wise man who
  built his house on rock. The rain fell, the
  floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that
  house, but it did not fall, because it had been
  founded on rock.
• p. 9 (Matthew 72425)

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• Sermon on the Mount in Summary
• In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught his
  disciples to be salt and light for the world.
  They needed not only to obey the law but also to
  go beyond it in dealing with inner feelings of
  anger, lust, and judgment, cultivating love not
  only for friends but also for enemies.p. 9

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• Sermon on the Mount in Summary
• They should give from the heart but
  anonymously and not for show, engaging regularly
  in private prayer and other personal spiritual
  disciplines, focusing on God alone and therefore
  being able to set aside worry and self-deception.
  Finally, they were to act on the word rather than
  merely hearing and then ignoring it.p. 9

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• Activity 1
• Individual Reflection and Sharing
• (See page 9.)

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• The Challenge of Going Deeper
• Making resolutions to changenot always easy to
  keep
• Resolving to be countercultural as a disciple of
  Jesus
• Activity 2 (p. 10)

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• Going Deeper Is Scary
• Ken swimming off the Great Barrier Reef
• Tahitian pearl diver
• The deep can be scary.
• Jesus telling the fishermen to cast their nets in
  the deep water (Luke 54)
• Jesus calls us to the deep of the Holy Spirit.
• Activity 3 (p. 11)

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• Contemplation and Action
• Who am I? What do you want me to do?
• The challenge to go deeper suggests to us
  the need to go inward, to examine self, to
  practice the spiritual disciplines of prayer,
  meditation, and waiting in stillness for Gods
  word in our consciousness.p. 11
• Read Psalm 461, 9, 10
• Is it possible to see God working without
  being still?

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• Called into Christs presence
• In contemplation and stillness we breathe in.
• Sent forth in Christs name
• In action we breathe out.
• Story of the nuns (p. 11)
• What do we learn from this story?

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• If you live primarily from your skills, you
  will soon get exhausted. If you live from your
  gifts, your energy will be constantly renewed.
• Activity 4 (p. 12)

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• Spiritual Disciplines
• Spiritual disciplines are a means to love, not
  pride.
• Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.
• Called to radical love
• Activity 5Small Group Discussion
• (p. 12)

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• The Sacraments Lead Us Deeper
• They provide a form of spiritual discipline.
• They provide encounters with the Holy Spirit at
  important times of need and decision.
• They call us into deeper relationship with each
  other and God.
• They are both contemplation and action.
• (p. 12)

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• Look especially to the sacraments to enrich the
  spiritual life of the body. Seek for greater
  understanding of my purposes in these sacred
  rites and prepare to receive a renewed
  confirmation of the presence of my Spirit in your
  experiences of worship.p. 13, D C 15811c
  (1992)
• What is the promise here?

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• Experiencing the Divine in sacramental ritual
  lays claims on our livesthe gospel becomes a
  part of us, and we become part of it. As we go
  forth from the sacraments, we leave as changed
  people, assured of Gods grace, ready to live
  sacramental lives and empowered to share our
  witness and resources with others.
• Activity 6 (p. 13)

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• Asking God (p. 13)
• Joseph as a youth read from the BibleIf any of
  you is lacking in wisdom, ask GodJames 15
• Joseph went deeper by going to the grove to pray
  for direction for his life.

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• Testimony of Going Deeper to Solve a Major
  Conflict
• Kens story (pp. 1314)
• Activity 7 (p. 14)

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• The Temple and Going Deeper
• The Temple calls us to go deeper in discipleship.
• So does congregational life.
• Activity 8 (p. 15)