I am the recipient of extravagant grace, husband to an amazing wife, father to three very cool kids (14, 12 and 6), and church planter for the brand new Creekstone Church in Dahlonega, GA, a college town in the mountains 60 miles north of downtown Atlanta.
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"The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.” ~ Kevin DeYoung
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Fight Club Begins This Thursday
FIGHT CLUB, Creekstone's Bible study for men, starts up again this Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 a.m. at Chick-Fil-A. Don't be a light-weight! Wake up for coffee, a chicken biscuit and a big ole helping of grace to fuel your day.
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Today's Fight Club Handout & Notes
Today at Fight Club we discussed Galatians 5:1-6. Below I've pasted a copy of the handout, including Johnny Long's notes on "The Downward Pull of Christian Legalism."
5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
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Fight Club Notes on Galatians 4:3-7 • From Slavery to Sonship
Fight Club ’09
Round 4 • Galatians 4:3-7 / “Adoption: From Slavery to Sonship”
3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. (ESV)
I. The Gospel Has Legal, Relational, Existential and Eschatological Aspects
- Justification
- Adoption
- Sanctification
- Glorification
II. How does human adoption work? How is this an analogy for spiritual adoption?
III. A Key Passage in the Bible- Galatians 4:3-7- v. 3- Before sonship (“Formerly”- v. 8)
- v. 4- The fullness of time
- v. 5- Redemption (I am no longer a servant/slave!)
- v. 6- The Spirit —> “Abba”
- v. 7- An heir of God
- * See also Ephesians 1:3-14
IV. Implications and Applications...
- What are symptoms of spiritual orphanhood or slavery?
- What will it mean for me to “live like a child”?
- How does spiritual adoption deal with issues of identity?
- How does it relate to prayer? (read A Praying Life by Paul Miller- wow, what a great, helpful book!)
- Where am I on the slave vs. son continuum?
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This Week at Fight Club- Sola Fide
This morning at our weekly men's Fight Club, we honed in on Romans 2:16, where Paul says, "We know that a person is not justified by works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Jesus Christ, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.”
In light of that passage, we discussed the meaning of justification: “Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.” We also discussed the problem with religion and the meaning of faith. Some of the implicaitons that flowed from that discussion involved these issues:
1. Justification is the foundation of the Christian life. But what other things do we tend to make the foundation? Which idols to we stand upon? How does justification address identity issues?
2. Justification is a means to an end. Then what is the “end,” or goal of justification?
3. Justification deals powerfully with performance guilt. Then where is the motivation for obedience?
4. Justification calls me to move from a focus on my works to a focus on the work of Jesus for me. How can I do that? What difference will it make?
5. Why is an attempt to be self-justified a wicked pursuit?
Curious about how we approached these questions? Then join us next Wednesday at 6:30 for Fight Club (guys only / meets at Danny's Restaurant, just over Crown Mountain on the left heading toward GA 400).
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