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TILT – Intimacy Recovered – Intimacy Lost
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Genesis 3:8-21
The foundational consequence of sin is the loss of intimacy on every level of life. It mars our relationships with God and others; our sexuality and our sense of belonging in the universe.
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July 18 – Isaiah 58:8-9 Imminence and Transcendence
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Marilyn Muller
God has immanent qualities: qualities that bring him close and accessible to us to us and transcendent qualities: qualities that make him mysterious in his “differentness” from us. We live in an era that has emphasized immanence. In an effort make God accessible and seeker-safe we run the risk of losing the mystery of the divine and making our God too small.
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TILT – Intimacy Recovered – The Intimate God
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John 14:15-23
The Trine is a Being of intimacy; “God is love.” Made in the image of God we are designed for intimacy.
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July 11 – Drawn Together for Mission, a Federation of Churches”, 2 Corinthians 11:7-9
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TILT – Ends And Means – Ministry that Leave Marks
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2 Corinthians 11:16-33
The story of Paul’s ministry is seen on his body. Ministry can be hard, painful and unappreciated. But in this Paul can claim to carry in his body the marks of Christ. (Gal 6:17).
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July 4 – “Liberty, Responsbility and ‘The Mistery of Iniquity’ by Thomas Helwys”, Ezekiel 18:1-20
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TILT – Ends And Means – An Authoritative Ministry
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2 Corinthians 10:1-11:15
Knowing that not everyone accepts his authority or welcomes his instruction, Paul is nevertheless clear that, as he is obeying God, he has the right to speak with apostolic authority. His authority does not reside in his excellent performance of ministry but in his obedience to the call of God on his life.
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June 27, James 5:19,20, “Recovring the Wanderer”
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TILT – Ends And Means – An Accountable Ministry
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2 Corinthians 8:1-24 (ch 9)
Paul has an expectation that his readers will be financially generous in support of “sharing in the ministry of the saints.” Alongside instructions for how to receive the offering is information about how the offering will be delivered. We cannot expect financial generosity where there is no financial accountability. Part of ministry responsibility includes financial generosity. While we don’t attach money to our mission statement, mission is always either released or limited by resources.
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June 20 James 5:13-18, “Caring Prayer”
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Whatever is happening in life we are called to praise or pray. We are called to do this with and for each other. There is a particular opportunity to seek the prayer of elders. The onus is on the person needing prayer to request this; our elders are always ready. If we are walking the walk of the rest of the book, our prayers will be powerful.
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TILT – Ends And Means – A Pure Ministry
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2 Corinthians 6:2-7:1
While deeply engaged in the world around him, Paul’s ultimate affection is for God and his purpose in the world. He has given his heart completely to God and in so doing given his heart completely to the people receiving God’s ministry through him. He complains that their hearts are not as firmly fixed. They need to learn to love the world – but to be free from entanglement in the world’s values. Our mission is aimed at the world; but it remains God’s mission – he and his truth are at the core of it.
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June 13 James 5:12, “Just Do It”
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As people who believe in and follow a promise keeping God, we should be people of our word. (This is a lesson James learned from his brother, Jesus.)
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TILT – Ends And Means – A Reconciling Ministry
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2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2
A Reconciling Ministry
The object of Paul’s ministry is to bring people into reconciliation with God. This assumes people need to be reconciled to God. Paul sees himself as an ambassador: “We plead on Christ’s behalf.” He calls people to a clear acceptance of salvation. We seek to be a growing community by reconciling people in the city to God.
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June 6 – James 5:1-11, “Never Get a Tattoo Where a Judge Can See It”
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In the knowledge that God is going to evaluate our lives we are wise if we live now in anticipation of that judgment. This attitude produces a combination of morality and patience: morality because we know we are accountable for our own actions; patience because we know God’s justice will prevail if we are wrongly treated now.
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TILT – Ends And Means – A Ministry with Theological Integrity
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2 Corinthians 4:1-6
As clearly and directly as he can, Paul expresses “God’s message” rather than his own. He is careful not to deceive by distorting the truth – twisting it to the advantage of his own point of view. He recognizes that not all will receive this truth, but he will not distort it in order to make it more palatable. Our task is to reveal the mystery of God and allow people to respond as they choose.
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May 30 James 4:13-17, “Living with Limitations”
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The values of the world assume our ability to plan and profit. True wisdom holds all plans with humility. What needs to drive us is not our ‘five year plan,’ but our knowledge of what is good and right. Faith is approaching life like Abraham who simply followed God toward a promise.
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TILT – Ends & Means – A Redemptive Ministry
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2 Corinthians 2:5-17
One of the issues that had undermined Paul’s relationship with Corinthian believers was his demand in an earlier letter (1 Co 5) that the church discipline one of its members. He now indicates that as repentance has occurred it has become appropriate to welcome that person back into the community. Redemptive ministry is aimed at restoring the sinner rather than punishing the sinner: the healing of God. It requires a process of confrontation, repentance and restoration. And it takes guts.
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May 23 James 3:13-4:12, “Transformed Values”
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We are reared in a value structure. This value structure is framed by a world which has always been competitive and harsh. The natural inclination is to measure success by winning this competition. We can enter into a Christian belief system, but if it is real it will transform our values and we will come to understand that the values which drive our culture are actually hostile to God.
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TILT – Ends & Means – An Authentic Ministry
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2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Paul is clear about the personal distress and depression he had undergone prior to his arrival in Corinth. (Acts reveals he had been sent on alone by his colleagues because he had alienated people literally everywhere he went.) v9 – in depression he has lost all confidence. What he has to share is the comfort he, himself, has received from God. This is not theoretical comfort. His transparency allows him to offer what he knows will help.
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May 16 James 3:-12, “Purity Measured by the Tongue”
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What comes out of our mouth reveals who we are. This is not so much a teaching to control our tongue as a teaching that our tongue reveals our purity. If I am impure in any area of my life, I will lie about it. I will demean others as a way of rationalizing my own impurities. If I discipline myself to only speak “the truth in love,” I will protect myself from sin and temptation.
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May 9 Esther 4:1-14 “Faith And Works: A Look At The Life Of Esther”
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Joanna James
Part of being in Christian community is releasing others to do the work that God has called them to do, recognizing that their specific talents and gifting make them just right for the task placed before them.
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TILT – Living Worship – Worship as humility
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Worship is made possible through humility. When we humble ourselves as God requires, we take on his very character; when we take on his character, we are willing to follow to him into places and spaces we would otherwise avoid -those places where he is already.
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May 2 James 3:1-12, “Complete Faith”
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Greg Kay
We can have a view of faith and works that artificially places a line between the two. Works without faith are empty, irrelevant and temporary. By our works alone we cannot please God. Faith, by its nature, works. The idea that we can have faith without works is a misunderstanding of what faith is. Faith is living in the perspective of God.
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TILT – Living Worship, Worship as Mercy
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Matthew 9:9-13
The way we tend to use the word “mercy” today is essentially to equate it with “pity”. Pity may be an enacting of care for another, but it assumes a “stepping down” to the person in need. Biblical mercy on the other hand is an enacting of love, grace and compassion in such a way that it affirms the dignity of all.
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April 25 James 1:26-2:12, “No ‘Have’s’; No ‘Have Nots’”
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In the world there are huge barriers between rich and poor. In the community of Christ these barriers are broken down. They need to break down in both directions as the poor regard the rich and the rich regard the poor through the lens of “the royal law”.
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TILT – Living Worship, Worship As Justice
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Micah 6:8-13,James 2:1-9,Leviticus 19:2
God tells us that “we will be holy as he is holy.” Implicit in this summons/promise is explicit action: we are called to do justice as we take on the very character of God. Doing justice is only possible when we realize that our poor are no less worthy of anything than we are, and that we who are not poor are actually part of the solution.
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April 18 James 1:19-25, “Putting Faith into Practice”
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The importance of what we believe is how it transforms our living. (Ro 12:2). Faith is a way of life. On the one hand, there is no point in hearing the truth if we aren’t going to do anything about it. On the other hand, we must let the Word shape our understanding of what is true about God, ourselves and our world – we can’t walk the truth if we don’t know it.
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TILT – Living Worship – Worship as Scattering: an Introduction
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Micah 6:6-8, Deuteronomy 15:4-5, James 1:27
The worship that God asks of us is enacted both in Gathering and Scattering; if our intentional worship is only found in Gathering (communal worship) it is displeasing to God, but when we live out our worship in the world, caring for the things that God cares for, God calls our worship “good”. A major theme of both the Old and New Testaments is that God’s heart is for the poor, and so we who desire to live for God must develop a love for the poor as expressed in Justice, Mercy and Humility
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April 11, 2010 – James 1:1-18, “Keeping our Trouble in Perspective”
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It is inevitable that trials and trouble will come our way. It is important to know that God is forming us through what we experience. When we don’t know how to manage a problem, we are promised His wisdom.
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April 4, 2010 – He Is Risen
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He Is Risen Indeed
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March 28, 2010 – John 12:12-16, 18:33-37 – What Kind Of Leader Do We Want
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Early in their history the children of Israel demanded a king so they could be like the other nations. Tracking history; this demand produced a governer like Pilate. Jesus offers a different kind of kingdom that is radically different in its values and methods. As we explore our desire for leadership and the places where we function as leaders, we must decide what kind of king we really want: the models of business, politics and military or the model of Jesus?
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TILT – They Saw His Glory – Pilate
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This account ends with a question mark. The glory of God as seen in Jesus always calls for us to consider and reevaluate what we value and hold as true. Ultimately, our experience of the glory of God calls upon us to make a decision in favour of God.
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March 21 Luke 7:11-17 – “Healing and Hope”
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(With reference to 8:40-48). The healing of Jesus comes into hopeless situations. The implications of this are far beyond physical maladies. The healing acts of church are signs of the coming of God’s kingdom.
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TILT – They Saw His Glory Malchus
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The glory of God is, in part, His unconditional love and grace. Jesus heals even those who oppose him. (In fact, he heals those who have been wounded by the church and have become resistant to God’s glory as a result.)
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March 14, 2010 Luke 7:1-10 – “Healing and the Outsider”
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The centurion who owned the slave was concerned whether or not Jesus would be motivated to help him. He was, after all, a Roman occupier. They presented a case that the man was deserving of help. Jesus turns this assumption around saying that he is of better faith than the Jewish elders sent to bring Jesus. Rather than being seen as “in” or “out” he is seen as simply “in need.”
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TILT – They Saw His Glory Peter and Judas
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Mar 7 – John 13:1-18
Performing any act of healing on the Sabbath was considered work and thus unlawful. There is a human tendency to view religion as something people serve. Jesus wanted to make the point that religion ought to serve people rather than the other way around.
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March 7, 2010 – Luke 6:6-11 – “Healing and Religion”
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Performing any act of healing on the Sabbath was considered work and thus unlawful. There is a human tendency to view religion as something people serve. Jesus wanted to make the point that religion ought to serve people rather than the other way around.
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Feb 28 Luke 5:17-26 – “Healing and Forgiveness”
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Physical healing is rather dramatic. Forgiveness cannot be seen. Jesus is more concerned with getting at the root of the matter. To prove his ability to get to the root matter he does what no one else can do.
TILT – They Saw His Glory – Lazarus, Mary and Martha – John 11:1-44
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Feb21/10
The glory of God is super-natural, ie: beyond the parameters of the natural world. Jesus demonstrates how the glory of God is well able to reverse the suffering and death intrinsic to the natural world since the fall.
Roots: “Eternal Hope” 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:4
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Feb21/10
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.
Roots: “One Church” Ephesians 4:1-6
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Feb 14/10
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
TILT “They Saw His Glory” – The Man At The Sheep Gate John 5:1-15
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God’s glory is manifest by Jesus beyond the traditions and parameters of religion. Jesus reveals the glory of God beyond either the myth (?) of the angel or the observance of the Sabbath.