Lesson 2: The Mission of God: A Love Story

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Outcome: Understand and be able to articulate the primary motivation for Christian mission in light of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Eat this Text: John 13:1-20

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A+1-20&version=NRSV

Imagine Jesus washing your feet? What words do you have for Jesus?

N.T. Wright "Cruciformed: Living in Light of the Jesus Story"

Click the link to view in full screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=cN3Mem9suhE&feature=emb_logo

1. Wright says that after Jesus resurrection, his disciples were living in radically different ways. How have you experienced salvation leading to a radical change of life in yourself or others?

2. Which of these 4 elements (cleansing from sin, ultimate defeat of evil, self-giving love, look to yourself and know that I (Jesus) will do it for you) most appeals to you? Why?

3. How does Wright interpret Jesus' words on the cross: "It is finished"? How does it change the way you see Christ's death?

4. What is Jesus commission to us in the New Creation?

5. What music do you desire to play like never before (as in Wright's metaphor of the musician convicted and then released at 26:56)?

6. How does looking at Christ's death and resurrection as a victory over the powers inform the way we look at our vocation and mission?

7. Wright maintains that Jesus' cross-shaped love living in us means that we will suffer as we share this love with the world. How have you seen this in your own life and that of our workers?

Eat This Text: 1 John 4: 7-16

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A7-16&version=NRSV

What is Jesus' cross-shaped love prompting in you? How will you live it this week?

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