Copyright © Simon G. Harris 2011 Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission
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The Coming of Jesus
Is the BIG story of Jesus’s life the same as ours? “Jesus is Lord!”
Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." 1. radically orientated towards the lost Jesus people are...
Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." 2. radically orientated towards serving Jesus people are...
Philippians 2:7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 2. radically orientated towards serving Jesus people are... served ‘the many’
Matthew 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners."' But wisdom is proved right by her actions." Jesus people are...
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Matthew 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners."' But wisdom is proved right by her actions." 3. radically orientated towards ‘eating & drinking.’ Jesus people are...
Mark 2:16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 3. radically orientated towards ‘eating & drinking.’ Jesus people are... highly relational
Luke 15:2But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." 3. radically orientated towards ‘eating & drinking.’ Jesus people are... highly relational