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Christ Community Leawood

Responding to the King - May 15 | Leawood

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Christ Community - Leawood Campus

14200 Kenneth Rd, Leawood, KS 66224, United States

Friday 3:00 AM

Adoption and Foster Care Gathering | TODAY

If you are involved in adoption or foster care, or would like to learn how to support families who are, come to our church-wide gathering TODAY in the Cafe. Pizza will be served at 12:45pm, and the meeting is 1:15-2:00pm.

Randy Heading for Sabbatical

Randy Bonifield will be starting a sabbatical tomorrow. Help us celebrate him and thank him for the work he puts into our weekend services. Also, help us welcome our volunteers who will be leading us musically over the next three months.

Big Time for Families | June 6–9

Big Time is coming! The “Time Machine” will be landing June 6-9. Families, come discover who is traveling inside to tell God’s story. Big Time is connecting families and growing families. Register now at ChristCommunityKC.org/leawood.

8th Annual Golf Event | August 13

Save the Date! Join us at Deer Creek Golf Club for our annual church-wide Christ Community golf tournament Saturday, August 13. Please direct any questions to Barry Roberts (bnesrob@juno.com) or Alan Mercer (AlanM@ChristCommunityKC.org), or visit our website.

Matthew 12:22-46

Sermon Notes | May 15, 2016
Responding to the King | Join His Family
Speaker: Andrew Jones, AndrewJ@ChristCommunityKC.org

>> Jesus is either the devil or your brother.

>> Outright rejection

>> Passive indifference

>> Self-centered manipulation

CONVERSATION STARTERS – Leawood Campus

1. Takeaway. This Sunday, what was personally convicting, encouraging, enlightening, or helpful to you? Spend time discussing this.

2. Question. What was something that was confusing, unclear, or even offensive about the sermon this Sunday?

3. Read TEXT. (Matthew 12:22-30): Jesus makes it very clear that we are either with him or against him. What does it look like to be against Jesus? What does it look like to be with him?

4. Pastor Andrew shared that we can distance ourselves from Jesus through either outright rejection, passive indifference, or self-centered manipulation. Which of these three would you say the majority of people in our culture identify with? Which of these do you find yourself identifying with?

5. Read the excerpt below: Why is it so common for people, both inside and outside the church, to respond to Jesus simply as a moral teacher and not Lord?

Excerpt from “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

6. Spend some time in prayer together: Pray together asking the Lord to reveal where we may be responding to Jesus through rejection, indifference, or manipulation. Ask God to bring a renewed understanding of what it means to live as his dearly beloved child with Jesus as our brother.

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