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SACRIFICE

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SACRIFICE -The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines Sacrifice as

1: an act of offering to a deity something ;precious especially: the killing of a victim on an altar

2:something offered in sacrifice

: destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else

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nobby You !Oh Paris Can you think of why this particular

famous person is famous for? Most of what comes to mind is basically

- me ism - Me ism is what turns you into a snobby

,person someone that can not technically.see beyond her own or his own nose These

people tend to think of them being a gift

,for humanity so narcisistic that theybelieve they are the best thing after. ( ,sliced bread la mama de Tarzan La Ultima

- , )Coca Cola en el Desierto etc , ,She calls herself a model an actress an

etrepenour have you ever seen her do any,of the above mentioned? If you have has

she done it well? Don t think so Otherthan posing around for pics and spend her

,family s money have not seen much of herskills out there

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hristianity Over Christ Much of Christianity is much like this person that we just

talked about How does this relate to church?

for instance the African American Church thinks they have,it all when it comes to worship the European American

.Church has it all when it comes to theology We think of

, ,ideas bout how to include music food dress codes and

,everything else in our churches anything that identifies,us as a culture has to get mixed has to get mixed with

.our faith Just like Paris Hilton chose her looks over her abilities

we wind up choosing Christianity over Christ , , We have created different levels tones flavors of the same

,thing and symply consume what we like the most what goes better with our culture

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A Tall Americano Please

It is pretty much,like Starbucks

. ,Vs McDonalds Vs, .Coffee Bean Vs 7

11 coffee

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Why do you like the church you go to?

The Means Vs TheEnds

The ways we use toglorify Jesuswere not to bemore importantthan the actual

.worship itself

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Shadows of the real Thing

Shadows are just an outline of the real.object

, , ,Music bible studies preaching stylesall this gives us a sense of what, !Christ is but they are not Him

we are more comfortable with the systemwe have created to worship him than

!with worship him itself

Because of cultural preference we have,become like Paris chosing the

.means over what the objective is

Divisions show up our preferenceswhether those are racial s iritual

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he Flags on the Wall It is ironic to preach Jesus Christ and not to open our

door to other cultures . baptiststandard com reports that America s churches are

. . %still segregated by race Only 5 4 churches are raciallyintegrated

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Questions

,In your own words what does it mean to choseChristianity over Christ?

Why do you think there is so much division, , ,in church regarding race culture moneyetc?

Can you think of any other figure inChristianity that would representsacrifice like the one from Jesus?

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HY WHY WHY?

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Life beyond the end of your Nose

We have crossed our eyes somuch that the clearimage of Jesus is

unregognizable

So correcting our crookedvision will take us a

lot of effort and ofcourse departure of what

is normal

Lets see what is the normal or standard for

:Jesus Read Philippians: -2 5 8

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-Culture of Self or ME ISM

we became simply unwillingand selfish

That added to the terriblepace of our culture

( ) =time Culture of Self

This culture teaches you to ,GET WHAT YOU CAN CAN

, WHAT YOU GET and SIT ON

THAT CAN

!YES YOU CAN

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And Now What?

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. . . .W J D ? AND THE ANSWER ISSACRIFICE

Lets read Philippians: :2 6 and Romans 8 3

He became one of us he

left his celestial

culture to become oneof us

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Follow Jesus IntoDisplacement

Displacement is to moveor to change

location

But it is a bigmovement not pasitos de bebe

Jesus chose to

,Sacrifice

displacing

himself of hiscomfort andsorroundings

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Has Somebody Done this?

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What Church has to be

Thermostat Thermometer

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AHORA SI

!!!PREPARATE

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