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Person: Pharisees

Decision

We have a choice to make. Who do we think Jesus is?…

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Potential

Jesus does not condemn us for what we have been, but sees the potential in us for what we can become….

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Prophet

Do we fall on our knees, weep, and pour ourselves out at the feet of God?…

Affirm

A radical inclusivity and it’s at the heart of the gospel….

Included

It is tempting to look back on the early Church through rose-tinted spectacles, but the truth is that the spread of Christianity…

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Luke 6:1-5. It’s the closeness to God — the relationship with God — that matters, not the method. And you can get close to God right now, wherever you are, by simply turning to God through Jesus and saying ‘yes please’….

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Fasting

Luke 5:33-36. Some Christians do not think we need to fast today, yet other Christians find fasting a helpful spiritual tool to enable them to focus their minds on God….

Stand

Jesus, literally stands with us. How utterly amazing is that?…

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Mission

Luke 5:27-32. We are to love and be a light to all and to be an influence for good and an agent for God….

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Forgiveness

Luke 5:22-16. We can receive that forgiveness of all our sins — everything we have ever thought, said or done, that has dishonoured ourselves, others, or God. All we need to do is ask….

Middle

Welcome and acceptance back into God’s family is a two-way street….

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Pharisee

Luke 5:20-21. There’s nothing you can do to make God love you more, and nothing you can do to make God love you less….

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How do we press on towards our goal?

Each of us needs to spend time listening to God, and stay in tune with the Spirit, to work out how and when and where God is leading, and to enable us to work out God’s purposes in the world….

Hope

Sin and death no longer has the final word….

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Seek

Luke 5:17-20. We only need to have faith in this rabbi Jesus, and if we seek him, we will find him….

Divorce

We must not do things — even if they are legally permissible — at the expense of others or the world around us….

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As Christians, what laws are we under?

If you are struggling to know what to do in any given situation, and are concerned with doing the ‘right’ thing, then simply go back to the two greatest commandments, for no religious, political, or social law can ever override them….

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How can we become clean?

The Scribes and Pharisees were obsessed with spiritual cleanliness yet Jesus had some strong words for them….