Main Idea || Through Jesus, all rejected outsiders have been reconciled & reinvented into a new family.
Fill-In Notes: https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/39900/note-154329.html
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION:
1. Why do you think it is that despite all our social, medical, technological and scientific advances, our world hasn’t moved any closer to unity. Even worse, it seems to be suffering from such extreme disunity?
2. READ ALOUD: Ephesians 2:13 (NLT)13 But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
- Before trusting Jesus we’re all “excluded” “outsiders” who are “without hope and without God”. Describe how it feels to be brought near with God through the work He’s done rather than through the work you’re doing.
3. God makes us “one new people” (v15). So reconciling with others from a different culture or race doesn’t force us to renounce our distinctions. Instead, it forces our “humble willingness” to
- Recognize our shared need for Jesus &
- Reject our own exceptionalism beyond Jesus.
a. Explain in your own words what this means for you (or why it’s so important).What seems to make it difficult for you to reject & resist self-supremacy & self-righteousness?
