Avenue Vineyard April 05, 2015. 18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the.

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Avenue Vineyard April 05, 2015

18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18

N.T. Wright Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun.

N.T. Wright cont’d The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

…those who want to save their life ____ ____ ___. …those who lose their life for my sake _____ _____ ___.

“I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer.” Jim Carey

“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” G.K. Chesterton