Sermon Outline

I don't usually write down anything when I preach, but due to feeling sick today, I decided to have an outline if I needed it.  Since many have asked me for a copy of today's message here is that outline:

• Mark 1:29-38
  • Typical Jesus Text
    • Heal
    • Care
    • Provide Hope
  • Unexpected
    • Doesn't stay still
    • Cares for insiders
    • Cares for who comes to him
    • Goes to Care for those who don't come
  • Church
    • Should be likewise, equal care for all, don't just stay inside.
    • Nice encouraging sermon done.
• 2 Timothy 13-18
  • What is scriptrure good for?
    • Initial learning
    • Testing the logic
    • Improvement
    • Living
  • NOT “Bible Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It”,
    • Rather “learn from these examples, and find new ways to do new things in a similar way”
    • Scripture like Jesus shows us “ways” to be, not “how things are to be”
• Example: Korah
  • Under taught story
  • The story ends with vindication for Moses
  • The point of the story isn't don't question, but HOW Moses responds
    • Risk, what if he is wrong
    • Hope, God will still be focused on the “creative benefit” of all things regardless
    • Moses doesn't KNOW he's in the right
      • Regardless of how much he believes it, he is willing to be shown wrong
      • Thus will accept the consequences if he is
      • He doesn't fear, because of HOPE, and thus can RISK
• Back to Mark
  • What are we willing to risk to follow the way of Jesus?
  • Where are we being called to go, even though we may be doing well where we are?
  • Are we willing to step away from good work, hear the spirit call, and go into the unknown?
  • Do we see ourselves as a place, a people, and/or a movement? Are we being what we're being called to be?
  • What happens to Jesus if he doesn't do all the things he does here? What might happen to us?
• The Big Question
  • The last question is based on a problem in this world: Fear and Blame have great power in the world.
    • Can, and more importantly WILL the church be a place where living out the ideas of living by HOPE through RISKing ourselves creates a different narative for the world where we truly GO an d CARE for ALL, just as we would those closest to us?
    • Let us let go of FEAR, in our spirits, language, and living so we can grasp HOPE.
  • For scripture tells us that HOPE in the God who is LOVE changes everything if we will RISK. AMEN.