TODAY’S STUDY
Can We Start Again Please?
WOMEN IN THE CONGREGATION
The Message
“I know there is a lot of disturbance because of what you are teaching. We’re with you. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t look back. Just teach us about Christ.”
“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.”
“Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.”
“And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”
BREAK
Better is one Day in Your House
When I Think About Home
QUESTION FROM CONGREGATION MEMBERS
“Where are you going with this?”
THE REAL QUESTION
“Where is God taking us?”
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
Mary Magdalene
I’ve been living to see you. Dying to see you, but it shouldn’t be like this. This was unexpected… What do I do now? Could we start again please?
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
Mary Magdalene
I’ve been very hopeful, so far. Now for the first time, I think we’re going wrong. Hurry up and tell me… This is just a dream. Or could we start again please?
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
Peter
I think you’ve made your point now. You’ve even gone a bit too far to get the message home. Before it gets too frightening… We ought to call a vote… So could we start again please?
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
All
I’ve been living to see you. Dying to see you, but it shouldn’t be like this. This was unexpected… What do I do now? Could we start again please?
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
All
I think you’ve made your point now. You’ve even gone a bit too far to get the message home. Before it gets too frightening… We ought to call a vote… So could we start again please?Could we start again please?
(Repeat 5 times)
COULD WE START AGAIN, PLEASE?
From Jesus Christ Superstar
Mary Magdalene
Could we start again?
The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) when they had come from Jerusalem…
…and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed (hands).
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders…
…and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)
The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.’”
‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’
“Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.”
“For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER;’ and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH;’”
“…but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God)…’ “
‘…you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother…”
“…thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
QUESTIONS WHICH DEMAND ANSWERS
Who is the Lord Jesus Christ?
What does the Lord Jesus Christ want for you?
What is the Christian Way of Living?
QUESTIONS WHICH DEMAND ANSWERS
What is the new self?
What is the new spiritual species?
What is the fruit of the Spirit?
CLOSING SONG
He’s Been Faithful
For I am confident of this very thing, that He (God the Father) who began a (divine) good work in (the creation of) you will (keep on) perfect(ing) it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Do not fret because of evildoers, Be not envious toward wrongdoers.//For they will wither quickly like the grass And fade like the green herb.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard (garrison) your hearts and your minds (for those of you) in (union with) Christ Jesus.
CLOSING PRAYER
Let us pray…
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