Chapters 3 and 4 Flashcards
Your life will never really make sense until you place ____ at the center of it
Jesus
Who is Jesus to us?
The friend we’ve been yearning for our whole life
Who changed everything?
Jesus
Do we know Jesus as well as we should?
No
What is the best evidence that Jesus walked the earth?
Secular writings and other religious tradition
What are other religions to Christianity?
Rivals, they try to disprove that Jesus walked the earth
What is the Jesus question?
Who do you say I am
What does culture want us to reduce Jesus to?
A nice guy
Jesus what claimed to be three things:
The messiah, a lunatic, or a liar
What is the messiah-complex?
A post-Jesus phenomenon
What did the New Testament say the messiah was going to do?
Would come to save gods people
Prophet
A person who announces the will of God
What does sin make us do? What is sin?
Sin is the disease
It makes us more selfish and less capable of doing good
What are the two direct results or sin?
Suffering and death
What was gods original plan from God, man, and the environment?
Ever-reigning peace and harmony between man and women
What does sin always lead to?
Slavery one way or another
What happens when we turn away from God?
Our lives become miserable
What does every sin do to our world?
Makes it a bit more of a mess
We all the capacity for extreme___ and _____, but we also have the capacity for ___ and ___
Virtue and good
Sin and evil
Is is more than just bad behavior. What is sin a more through example of?
Rejection or destruction of something good
What did Jesus come to show us?
The best way to live
What does every sinner need?
A savior
What two natures does the son have?
Divine and human
True God and man
Why did Jesus send the Holy Spirit?
So the Holy Spirit would guide and encourage us
In scripture God is revealed as the father who _____ us, the son who ____ us, and the Holy Spirit who ____ us
Created
Redeemed
Inspires
Agape
Selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love
Jesus was a ___
Radical
The radical nature of Jesus’ ___, ___, and ____ is a constant source of ____
Life
Teachings
Love
Inspiration
What type of freedom does Jesus call us to?
One that gives us self-control to direct every aspect of our lives
What was the most radical teaching Jesus taught about? How did he do it?
Love
Showed us through his own life
Who was John the Baptist?
An itinerant preacher who lived around the time of Jesus. He was the one who baptized Jesus
Who killed John the Baptist? Why did he do it?
Herod beheaded John to impress a girl
Joy
A state of happiness that is independent of situations or circumstances
Grace
Help god gives us to respond to his call and to do what is good and right
Without ___ nothing is possible
Grace (you need grace to become the best version of yourself)
What is our greatest from of grace?
Reconciliation
Where do sin and grace intersect?
In our belief that we can be forgiven for our wrong doings
Matthews gospel tells the story of Jesus how?
Draws on many symbols from Jewish tradition to emphasize that Jesus is the long awaited Messiah
What is the first book of the New Testament?
Matthews gospel
What does prayer help us discover?
Who we are and what we are here for
As a human being you are a delicate composition of ____ and ___
Body and soul
Why pray?
We want to be happy, we cannot be happy or find happiness without god in our lives
What are one of the ways we discover God’s will?
Regular prayer
What is the big question?
God, what do you think i should do?
What is prayer?
An expression of thanks of a solemn request for help from God
What is prayer ultimately?
A conversation with God
Prayer process steps
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
What is the last step of the prayer process?
Pray the our father
5 types of prayer
Adoration Petition Intercession Thanksgiving Praise
Perseverance
Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, delays, failure, and opposition
What are two reasons people do pray
Nobody taught them how or they don’t know where to start
What does the prayer process teach us?
How to pray and exactly where to start
What does prayer help us do?
Keep things in perspective?
Why did Jesus go to quiet places to pray?
So he could stay focused on his mission, to remember what really mattered
