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1
Q

Your life will never really make sense until you place ____ at the center of it

A

Jesus

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2
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Who is Jesus to us?

A

The friend we’ve been yearning for our whole life

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3
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Who changed everything?

A

Jesus

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4
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Do we know Jesus as well as we should?

A

No

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5
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What is the best evidence that Jesus walked the earth?

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Secular writings and other religious tradition

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6
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What are other religions to Christianity?

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Rivals, they try to disprove that Jesus walked the earth

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7
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What is the Jesus question?

A

Who do you say I am

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8
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What does culture want us to reduce Jesus to?

A

A nice guy

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9
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Jesus what claimed to be three things:

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The messiah, a lunatic, or a liar

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10
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What is the messiah-complex?

A

A post-Jesus phenomenon

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11
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What did the New Testament say the messiah was going to do?

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Would come to save gods people

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12
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Prophet

A

A person who announces the will of God

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13
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What does sin make us do? What is sin?

A

Sin is the disease

It makes us more selfish and less capable of doing good

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14
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What are the two direct results or sin?

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Suffering and death

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15
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What was gods original plan from God, man, and the environment?

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Ever-reigning peace and harmony between man and women

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16
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What does sin always lead to?

A

Slavery one way or another

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17
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What happens when we turn away from God?

A

Our lives become miserable

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18
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What does every sin do to our world?

A

Makes it a bit more of a mess

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Q

We all the capacity for extreme___ and _____, but we also have the capacity for ___ and ___

A

Virtue and good

Sin and evil

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20
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Is is more than just bad behavior. What is sin a more through example of?

A

Rejection or destruction of something good

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21
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What did Jesus come to show us?

A

The best way to live

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22
Q

What does every sinner need?

A

A savior

23
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What two natures does the son have?

A

Divine and human

True God and man

24
Q

Why did Jesus send the Holy Spirit?

A

So the Holy Spirit would guide and encourage us

25
Q

In scripture God is revealed as the father who _____ us, the son who ____ us, and the Holy Spirit who ____ us

A

Created
Redeemed
Inspires

26
Q

Agape

A

Selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love

27
Q

Jesus was a ___

A

Radical

28
Q

The radical nature of Jesus’ ___, ___, and ____ is a constant source of ____

A

Life
Teachings
Love
Inspiration

29
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What type of freedom does Jesus call us to?

A

One that gives us self-control to direct every aspect of our lives

30
Q

What was the most radical teaching Jesus taught about? How did he do it?

A

Love

Showed us through his own life

31
Q

Who was John the Baptist?

A

An itinerant preacher who lived around the time of Jesus. He was the one who baptized Jesus

32
Q

Who killed John the Baptist? Why did he do it?

A

Herod beheaded John to impress a girl

33
Q

Joy

A

A state of happiness that is independent of situations or circumstances

34
Q

Grace

A

Help god gives us to respond to his call and to do what is good and right

35
Q

Without ___ nothing is possible

A

Grace (you need grace to become the best version of yourself)

36
Q

What is our greatest from of grace?

A

Reconciliation

37
Q

Where do sin and grace intersect?

A

In our belief that we can be forgiven for our wrong doings

38
Q

Matthews gospel tells the story of Jesus how?

A

Draws on many symbols from Jewish tradition to emphasize that Jesus is the long awaited Messiah

39
Q

What is the first book of the New Testament?

A

Matthews gospel

40
Q

What does prayer help us discover?

A

Who we are and what we are here for

41
Q

As a human being you are a delicate composition of ____ and ___

A

Body and soul

42
Q

Why pray?

A

We want to be happy, we cannot be happy or find happiness without god in our lives

43
Q

What are one of the ways we discover God’s will?

A

Regular prayer

44
Q

What is the big question?

A

God, what do you think i should do?

45
Q

What is prayer?

A

An expression of thanks of a solemn request for help from God

46
Q

What is prayer ultimately?

A

A conversation with God

47
Q

Prayer process steps

A

Gratitude: thank god for what you are most grateful for today
Awareness: talk to God about the times in the past day you weren’t the best version of yourself
Significant moments: revisit a part of the day that God may be trying to tell you something through
Peace: ask god for your wrong goings and fill you with deep abiding peace
Freedom: speak to god on how to change you life to become the best version of yourself
Others: pray for those that you felt god wanted you to pray for

48
Q

What is the last step of the prayer process?

A

Pray the our father

49
Q

5 types of prayer

A 
Adoration 
Petition 
Intercession 
Thanksgiving 
Praise
50
Q

Perseverance

A

Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, delays, failure, and opposition

51
Q

What are two reasons people do pray

A

Nobody taught them how or they don’t know where to start

52
Q

What does the prayer process teach us?

A

How to pray and exactly where to start

53
Q

What does prayer help us do?

A

Keep things in perspective?

54
Q

Why did Jesus go to quiet places to pray?

A

So he could stay focused on his mission, to remember what really mattered

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