CREATING CHRISTIAN COUNTER CULTURE

CREATING CHRISTIAN COUNTER CULTURE

CREATING CHRISTIAN COUNTER CULTURE
1 Thessalonians 2.13-16
Waiting for Jesus – Part 4

CHRISTIAN COUNTERCULTURE REQUIRES US TO…

EMBRACE THE SCRIPTURE AS OUR ULTIMATE GUIDE  

v. 13 “… when you received the word of God … you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God …” (esv)

Acts 17.21 “… [they] would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.” (esv)

The Bible Defends Itself:

Through An Explanation Of Real Life 

Through An Encounter With The Author 

v. 13 “… the word of God … is at work in you believers.” (esv)

Hebrews 4.12 “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” (niv)

1 Corinthians 2.12–14 “Now we have received … the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God … The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” (esv)

PREPARE TO SUFFER AS WE IMITATE CHRIST

v.  1.6 “… you became imitators of us and of the Lord …” (esv)

v. 14 “… you … became imitators of the churches … in Judea.” (esv)

v. 14 “… you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews …” (esv) 

John 1.11 “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.” (esv) 

Mark 8.34–35 “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (esv)