1. A Call to Sonship Men on Fire Community Retreat

2. Aparecida Document 2007
Encounter
Community
Formation
Mission

3. The Good Man Club

4. He died to make dead men live.
Jesus did not
die to make
bad men good.
He died to make dead men live.

5. A Pastoral Letter to the Men of Phoenix
Into the Breach
A Pastoral Letter to the Men of Phoenix
Thomas J. Olmsted Bishop of Phoenix

6. Is this all Jesus had in mind for us?
I’m a good man.
I never killed anyone.
I never robbed a bank.
I hardly ever get drunk.
I go to church.
I pay my taxes.
I vote.
I get along with my neighbors.
I work an honest day.
I remember my wife’s birthday.
I go to my kid’s soccer game.
Is this all Jesus had in mind for us?
Do good. Get good. Do bad. Get bad

7. Jesus is the only Savior of the world.
The Rich Young Ruler
Jesus is the only Savior of the world.

8. Evangelli Gaudium ~ The Joy of the Gospel

9. The Culture of Encounter

10. Nicodemus Visits Jesus at Night

11. The Key to a Life of Encounters
Baptism in the Spirit
The Key to a Life of Encounters

12. Romans 8
Sonship Awaits

13. Discussion Starters:
What does it look like when a man believes in God, but he lives his life as if God doesn’t matter?
What does it mean to have God as Father and to be his son?
Have I been living as a slave, a servant or an employee and not as a son…in what ways?

14. The Crucifixion of Saint Peter Caravaggio
Culture of
Surrender
The Crucifixion
of Saint Peter
Caravaggio

15. Condemnation

16. YOU are the funnel Orphan Spirit Lies Surrender Obtuse Spirit Lies
Revelation
Revelation
Orphan
Spirit Lies
YOU
Gifts
are the
funnel
Surrender
Gifts
Obtuse
Spirit Lies
Grace
Grace

17. Discussion Starter:
What lies have I believed that limit my surrender to God?
In what ways do I rely on myself and my natural abilities? How does that limit God using me to build the Kingdom?

18. The Glory of God is Man Fully Alive Becoming “fully human” is the goal
Saint Irenaeus

19. Jesus is the measure of cultural worth

20. What we have talent and resources to do on our own

21. The GAP What God is calling us to do
What we have talent and resources to do on our own

22. Jesus invites us to live in the GAP To invade the impossible To become
fully human and fully alive
It is the free gift of grace
That propels us into the GAP

23. If you want, you can become all flame.

24. Holy Spirit, I need more of You!
Come, Holy Spirit. Come great fire of love. Enkindle in us the fire of you love. Transform us that we may become the image of God’s only Son.
Make us holy, holy, as you are holy.

25. Led by the flesh
The
mind
led by the
flesh is enslaved.

26. Romans 8 – He who lives according to the flesh...
... has mind set on fleshly desires.
... is death.
... is hostile to God.
... does not submit to God’s law, nor can he do so.
... cannot please God.
... does not belong to Christ.
... will die

27. The mind led by the Spirit is life and peace.

28. Peter, do you love me?

29. Romans 8 – He who lives according to the Spirit...
... has his mind set on what the Spirit desires.
... has his mind governed by the Spirit in life and peace.
... is in the realm of the Spirit.
... has Christ in him and the Spirit gives life.
... is a son of God.
... is adopted to sonship and can say “Abba, Father.”
... is a co-heir with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

30. The
Splendor of
Truth

31. Our life in Christ is not one of “do’s and don’ts,” but an adventure in authentic freedom. Embrace that freedom in order to place your life at the service of Christ, beginning in your home and radiating into the world.