Elements City Church
What is Wisdom and How Do I Get It?
Most of the decisions we face in life aren’t choices of morality; they’re choices that require us to navigate the realities of daily life, and this requires wisdom. As we begin a three-week series on wisdom, we'll look at a biblical definition of wisdom and discover five ways to gain it. Proverbs 3 is an insightful passage of Scripture that teaches us how we can acquire wisdom, and use it in our everyday lives to navigate reality — not just to our benefit, but to the glory of God.
Locations & Times
Elements City Church
1825 N Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA
Sunday 5:00 PM
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https://share.fluro.io/form/6329f633da0feb00250cbd5fWisdom is understanding how reality works, and knowing how to navigate it within the boundaries of God’s righteousness and God’s justice.
Wisdom is knowing how things are, knowing how they work, and knowing what to do about it.
How do we gain wisdom?
By engaging in repetitious, continuous, and simple activities over time.
By engaging in repetitious, continuous, and simple activities over time.
Five activities that help us gain wisdom:
1. Knowing God
1. Knowing God
Know the covenantal love of God.
Five activities that help us gain wisdom:
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
Once you admit your own foolishness, you’re moving toward wisdom.
Five activities that help us gain wisdom:
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
Proverbs 3:1, 11, and 21 are all addressed to "my son".
We often gain wisdom from those who happen to be farther down the path of life and have enough proximity to us to know us and our tendencies well.
You need people who can speak into your life who love you but aren’t impressed with you.
We often gain wisdom from those who happen to be farther down the path of life and have enough proximity to us to know us and our tendencies well.
You need people who can speak into your life who love you but aren’t impressed with you.
Five activities that help us gain wisdom:
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
4. Knowing God's Word
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
4. Knowing God's Word
An Important Reminder:
Knowing God’s Word for the sake of knowing it doesn’t lead to any life change!
Life change happens when we put God’s Word into practice and keep His commands, but we can’t keep His commands if we don’t know them!
Knowing God’s Word for the sake of knowing it doesn’t lead to any life change!
Life change happens when we put God’s Word into practice and keep His commands, but we can’t keep His commands if we don’t know them!
Five activities that help us gain wisdom:
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
4. Knowing God's Word
5. Knowing trouble is always ahead
1. Knowing God
2. Knowing yourself
3. Knowing your true friends
4. Knowing God's Word
5. Knowing trouble is always ahead
You won’t learn everything in good times.
Wise people take pain and turn it into wisdom.
Wise people take pain and turn it into wisdom.
If you want to grow in wisdom, look to Jesus -- the only one who is perfectly wise -- and receive the salvation He offers to you.
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Gathering together as a church body to worship in song and in the Word is the best way to be refreshed in God's presence. We pray tonight has been a blessing to you as you start your week.
Next Sunday we continue in our new series, The Way of Wisdom. See you there!
Stay current with all upcoming events in the Elements app:
- Two ways to get involved with the Second Saturday Food Distribution:
1. Pack food boxes with us this Friday, Oct 11th at Caring Ministries from 8:30-10a
2. Hand out food boxes this Saturday, Oct 12th in the church parking lot at 8a
- Sign up for the Chili Cook-off on Sunday, Oct 20th. Link is in the Events section of the church app.
- Faith and Family Night at the Tucson Roadrunners hockey game on Friday, Nov 22nd