Which Jesus Are You Following?
i had the sermon spot at my church last night
i borrowed the Jesus talks with a gay man story and had it read out just before i got up
also used this sheet that had things on it to make you think about what Jesus looked like and if he lived today what he might be like, some of the things on the sheet included, hair, eyes, skin, no. of brothers and sisters, car, football team, music, how much could he benchpress, school grades, clothing, enemies, friends and more, thanks to Daniel Lansdowne a 16 yr old who came up with this sheet and used it in his small group last term, it really helped people think
here is some of the stuff i talked about and some of the questions i asked...
Which Jesus Are You Following?
Do you picture him as?
• A white man
• Middle/Upper class
• Drives a White Holden Calais with purple leather interior
• Owns a nice house in Lake Gardens (an upperclass area in Ballarat)
• A Middle Easterner
• Lower low class man
• Drives/pushes a rusted old Datson
• Homeless, lives in his car
(here i talked about how Jesus did un-expected things and that is never easy, people are normally shocked and/or don't tend to like it when you do things they don't expect of you)
What Did Jesus Do?
• John chapter 4 - was tired from a long walk so he sat wearily by a well in the middle of the day, and then talks with a woman who was of a race that Jews don’t associate with
• John chapter 9 - spat on the ground, used the spit to make mud, and smoothed it over a blind man’s eyes telling him then to go and wash to be healed
• Matthew chapter 9 - went and had dinner with Tax Collecting “scum”, the most hated people in town
• Matthew chapter 8 - let a Religious Teacher who wanted to follow him know about the kind of living style Jesus had and what he would be up for, the homeless style of living, finding where ever he could to lay his head
• John chapter 13 - takes off his robe (like took off his shirt) and wraps it around his waist and washes the his followers and close mates dirty dusty feet
• John chapter 2 – saw merchants selling cattle, sheep and doves for sacrifice in the Temple and money changers at tables, so he made a whip out of rope and chased them all out of the Temple. He then drove out the animals and overturned the money changer’s tables scattering the money, and told the dove merchants to get out!
• Matthew chapter 21 – went into the temple, drove out the merchants and customers and overturned the money changer’s tables and the stalls of the dove sellers, yelling how they had turned a place of prayer into a den of thieves!
Jesus lived the hard life,
did the un-expected,
said the un-expected,
and changed the world by doing so
What are you doing?,
how are you living?,
which Jesus are you following?
i borrowed the Jesus talks with a gay man story and had it read out just before i got up
also used this sheet that had things on it to make you think about what Jesus looked like and if he lived today what he might be like, some of the things on the sheet included, hair, eyes, skin, no. of brothers and sisters, car, football team, music, how much could he benchpress, school grades, clothing, enemies, friends and more, thanks to Daniel Lansdowne a 16 yr old who came up with this sheet and used it in his small group last term, it really helped people think
here is some of the stuff i talked about and some of the questions i asked...
Which Jesus Are You Following?
Do you picture him as?
• A white man
• Middle/Upper class
• Drives a White Holden Calais with purple leather interior
• Owns a nice house in Lake Gardens (an upperclass area in Ballarat)
• A Middle Easterner
• Lower low class man
• Drives/pushes a rusted old Datson
• Homeless, lives in his car
(here i talked about how Jesus did un-expected things and that is never easy, people are normally shocked and/or don't tend to like it when you do things they don't expect of you)
What Did Jesus Do?
• John chapter 4 - was tired from a long walk so he sat wearily by a well in the middle of the day, and then talks with a woman who was of a race that Jews don’t associate with
• John chapter 9 - spat on the ground, used the spit to make mud, and smoothed it over a blind man’s eyes telling him then to go and wash to be healed
• Matthew chapter 9 - went and had dinner with Tax Collecting “scum”, the most hated people in town
• Matthew chapter 8 - let a Religious Teacher who wanted to follow him know about the kind of living style Jesus had and what he would be up for, the homeless style of living, finding where ever he could to lay his head
• John chapter 13 - takes off his robe (like took off his shirt) and wraps it around his waist and washes the his followers and close mates dirty dusty feet
• John chapter 2 – saw merchants selling cattle, sheep and doves for sacrifice in the Temple and money changers at tables, so he made a whip out of rope and chased them all out of the Temple. He then drove out the animals and overturned the money changer’s tables scattering the money, and told the dove merchants to get out!
• Matthew chapter 21 – went into the temple, drove out the merchants and customers and overturned the money changer’s tables and the stalls of the dove sellers, yelling how they had turned a place of prayer into a den of thieves!
Jesus lived the hard life,
did the un-expected,
said the un-expected,
and changed the world by doing so
What are you doing?,
how are you living?,
which Jesus are you following?
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