Mary and Martha

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Mark Driscoll
Date:9/12/10
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Tags:
Luke 10:38-42
Mary and Martha
New Book "Church Planter"
Observations:
1 - Jesus had foes, fans, and friends:
Jesus chose his friends, there were only a few
2 - His friends ministered to him - Gift of Hospitality
3 - He has single lady friends, unusual for the day,
It was illegal to call anyone brother and sister without blood relationship, due to inheritance rights
4 - Jesus discipled women for ministry, Mary is sitting with men as an official student of Jesus
5 - Siblings in general, sisters specifically, are very different
6 - The church is a family where we annoy each other

Mary: Martha:
Contemplative Active
Word Work
Be-bee Do-bee
Type B Type A
Presence of God Presents for God
Relationship Responsible
Full Heart Full Schedule

Mary:
Chose the best portion of the two sisters, everything that I will ever do won't equal spending time with Jesus
Martha:
She is hospitable, had Martha not openned her house Mary couldn't enjoy Jesus
She is distracted by work
She is doing somethign that Jesus didn't ask her to do
She is nagging Jesus, maybe she is single for a reason
Marths wants Mary to be made into [Martha's] image
Lesson:
We ought to have Mary's heart with Martha's hands by God's grace
Genesis:
God created the world and called days a night/day cycle.
Our day is meant to start at evening and when we wake up the day is half done.
Do I have a plan for my sabath?
Which Marys do I need to appologise to for trying to make them into Marthas?

Jesus' Feelings
He misses her, He misses me when I don't spend time with him

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Bill Clem
Date:9/5/10
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Tags: Compassion, Slavery
Luke 10:25-
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Lawyers are high on the food chain, expert in the Law - Trying to Test (provoke an argument to trap Jesus) Jesus, Asks a personal question
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Jesus is not asking this man to do something He hasn't done
Jesus imaging the Father well:
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Loving the Father with all his
Loving the Father with all his strength - he even

Jesus is telling him to be prefect by loving the father fully.
The man tries to shrink the world down by asking who his neighbor is
PARABLE
We all get a picture of who someone is by what they wear
Rich guys or Poor guys here there is no indication of the victim's social status
The Father sets a level field for all, so don't treat anyone different based on their garb
James says don't give the best seat to the dude based on wealth
The Priest, Levite, and Samaritan don't know if the guy is rick or not, he is only a beaten human
Priest - doesn't help he isn't at the temple so he doesn't act like a priest
Levite is an assistant to the priest
Mentored by a professional priest to be a professional Levite and not to care for a human
Samaritan - has Compassion (a life changing compulsion to do good and act selflessly)
Two week to a month paid for the man to be cared for
He even provided so that the man can heal uponly to become a slave to pay off the debt
Prefigures Jesus who became spiritually poor so that we could become spiritually rich
Jesus is the Samaritan - he has set us free to be free.
The neighbor turns out not to be the man by rather the Samaritan
Theme - It's not your hand or your desire to be a neighbor it's your heart He is after.
Changed lifes are used by God to Change lives

Internship Training

9-5-10
Skill set building will be the focus - Equipping

God's Word----->Convictions------->Values------->Priorities------>Living Life (Rythms)
Genesis One
Focus: "God Said" -----> Effect
The Cultural Mandate
Have Dominion over the World
Create Legacy
Have fruitful multiplication
Create Culture
Be a Steward
All of this is a blessing from God for my good
Breakout Discussion - How do I want to make an impact? DREAM BIG

Genesis Three
Two ways to see this temptation:
Tempted by Evil
Tempted by a godly motive (It is a good thing to be like God)
Godly motives can lead to wickedness and rebellion - Stealing food to feed starving family
Results of the Fall
Broken Legacy
Corrupted Culture
Distorted Dominion
Death
What happens if we don't dream God's Dream?
I dream a perverted dream
Tension
In the struggle - Innovation occurs
Satan - seed of rebellion - the roten fruit in the fight against God - The tree of lying to the Man and Woman
Satan's Dream
I deserve More
God isn't enough
The nightmare leads to hell and is rooted in Pride
PRIDE
Taking a godly motive and twisting it into crap
God blesses us by convicting and systematicly opposing it
Defiles a person
Sin beneath the Sin
Leads to:
Self Deception - I know what is best
Rejecting of God's Word and Pastors/Shepherds
Rejecting God
Hopelessness - more hope for a fool than for a man who is wise in his own eyes
God Hates Pride
Pure HATRED
God Opposes the proud
God will destroy what I do in Pride
DANGERS:
Drifting from God's Dream and Goal and Purpose
Evidences of Pride
Shame - disgrace and humiliation - God's Grace and Discipline
Distruction - God will tear you down to expose pride, he is not affraid to
What does PRIDE look like during an internship?
I am very important - Self Desception
Distorted idetity - Entitlement
Maybe some of you have been called by God to plant a church TO FAIL?
Selfishness - using the church as a stepping stone
Self-Centeredness - Distorted shepherding, playing politics
Secret Life - double standard when you are away from Mars
Practically how can the threat of Pride be handled?
The Holy Spirit
Confession
God's Word
Prayer - acknowledge that God is God and I am not
Genuine Community -

Jesus asks The Apostles Who am I?

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Bill Clem
Date:7/18/10
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Tags:
Luke 9:18-24
Jesus asks The Apostles Who am I?
Jews had a categoy called Prophet - Too small a category for Jesus - He is Christ
Peter's category for Jesus as Christ was too small and inaccurate

It takes a lot of effort for me to turn down the noise of my existance and turn up the volue on God

Peter says you're the king of the universe, the Christ
Peter feels great about Jesus praising him and gets excited
The Kingdom:
No mroe sea, New city prepared for God's people
God's dwelling with his people as their God
Death is gone, Pain is gone, No more crying
The Kingdom is a now and Not yet:
We live in the kingdom now, but there is more to come when the God of the Multiverse comes and destroys all his enemies and is here with us
Peter's idea of the Christ is coming to kill romans is not correct, Jesus corrects him by telling him the future: rejection, suffering, murder, and raised
Jesus tells Peter that he will die, not kill the Romans
The implication is that since even the best man who has ever lived suffers, we will too
Peter REBUKES Jesus by saying "may it never be"
Jesus says "Get behind me satan" because Peter is standing in the way of the gospel
Peter is expecting to get stuff through the death of Rome and the elevation of the Jewish people, Using Jesus to get stuff
We don't follow Jesusto find comfort
Jesus did not come as a rebel but rather as a reformer in the Jewish faith who faithfully called the religious leaders to change

Peter's "Box" of KING didn't include rejection, suffering, and death so He rebukes Jesus for not submitting to his own conception of King
On the front end Jesus knew the cost and horror of his work and told his disciples yet he still was committed to serve

Jesus is saying to not tell people who I am otherwise they will try to use Jesus to get stuff instead of having Life
Lake City Campus decommissioned
They had to deal with diappointment, was it just a social club or rather where they on mission to serve Jesus regardless of what happens?
Jesus takes away my comfort and will never yield the position of God in my life, yet he will give me everything I need to follow him
Peter is like a kid sent to his room who fails to hear the part about cleaning his room, May os never be"
Jesus is saying "it's not worth it to not follow me"
Jesus' Painted Picture of His Glory
The Father an the holy angels
In Acts Jesus says that the kingdom has come, the Holy Spirit is it, He asks them to go out and live it, the gospel going out is part of experiencing the Kingdom
"Want me more that no pain, no death"
What does the kingdom look like?
People filled with the holy Spirit loving Jesus
Who is it who will not see death before the Kingom comes?
All the Apostles except Judas Iscariot get to see the Holy Spirit Come and thousands worshipping Jesus (Pentacosts - By the end of Acts there are 10,000 people worshipping Jesus
Distortion due to Sin
Change the tint of mour lives and what the World looks like - Then I ask Is the kingdom really here? - Jesus is the suthentication protocol that breaks through the tint of sin and hopelessness

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Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Mark Driscoll
Date:8/15/10
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Tags: Parenting, Silence and Solitude
Luke 9:51

Setting his face toward Jerusalem
Day of resolution to beat satan
Day of reconing, day that hinges his or my life
From Chapter 9 to 19 Jesus gets closer
Isaac and Abraham
Prefiguring the sacarifice of Jesus
Reactions to Jesus
#1 Samaritans - Wanted Jesus to be in second place to their tribe
They reject Jesus and the diciples ask if they get to nuke the Samaritans
The entourage of Jesus 100ish people send messengers ahead to see if they are able to stay in the villages that the group is passing thru
What is your tribe?
They didn't want jesus B/c he will not affirm their tribe, their religion, their system to belief
James and John - They want Fire to come back - Like the guy with the sign "Turn or Burn"
Jesus calls for change, but still is patient with the Samaritans, the disciples, and us
#2 Zealous guy "Jesus before Comfort"
Jesus says Are you gonna be ok with being homeless and broke with me?
He is like a bird without a nest, fox without a hole
Jesus is not trying to lie to get followers, he is honest upfront about how much this life is gonna suck
#3 Guy who wants to bury his father - Placing Security Before Jesus
Lack of compassion?? - A little mean
Is Jesus asking young people to disown their parents and break all ties, join his cult?
His parents are not likely dead - otherwise he would not be with Jesus - He is waiting for his parents to die
As soon as I reach a certain point in Life I will serve Jesus
Jesus knows this guy's heart and wants a sense of urgency
#4Guy who want to say goodbye to his household - Placing the Past before Jesus
Elijah and Elisha, burns his plow to say that his is in it
Jesus know this man's heart, who will not return if he goes back
"Oh I'll just talk to my non-Christian boyfriend before I commit to Jesus" NO!
Looking back regretfully - Double minded - conflicted - Romanticised the past
Still looking back to the sin of the past, Just like
You can't plow a straight row while looking back to the evil of the past
This is me I look back often
Those who look back want to go back - Bishop Reily
Jesus wants us to plow a good row so we can see a great harvest and have Joy
Example
Back at 19 he had that day
Never back slidden toward to sin

Community Group Ibid:
how do i harbor bitteness against my father?

The Harvest is Plentiful

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Mark Driscoll
Date:8/22/10
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Tags:
Luke 10:1-16
The Harvest is plentiful
This section is perfect for the prep for the big push in the fall
There are many predestined/pre-christians ready to hear and believe Jesus
God has been working in their hearts before
*Is my disposition selfish with low expectations for non-christians to christians?
Jesus' Strategy for Spreading the Love and truth of Himself to as many and possible
He is a sending and sent God
Sends out his people to reach other people
Sent in teams
12 Apostles and 70 others who are called
There is a bigger picture where many are continued to be reached for Jesus
*Are my expectations low?
The Past year has seen our biggest harvest yet as a Church
The future will be better by God's grace
Jesus asks us to pray to send out more laborers
COMMUNITY GROUPS
Goal is 100 more community groups - 300 hosts, apprentices, leaders
Campuses
Ballard is doing well and growing
West Seattle needs the right campus pastors
Shoreline is maxed out facility wise, bigger locations and replicating the campus twice
Bellvue is packed out, need a bigger location, creating new campuses on the 405 corridor
communityu groups are clustering by location and becoming a new campus
Dawntown is growing hugely, wants to plant a campus in the Rainier Valley usingt the same community group model
University of Washington have grow from a few volunteer to a few community groups, to about 400 hundred, now have a campus
Supreme Court says that a school group cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation there is an opportunity for the new building
Olympia Campus is now the fastest growing campus, new opportunity for more capacity
Every single campus has grown in the last year
Federal Way is doing well
Tacoma Campus? great unifying position for
**Olympia, federal Way, and UW campuses only have 1 elder each
Albuquerque Campus has grown during the summer never before! Bilingual services, need more seats, needs for space, huge CGs, replications
Jesus' method actually works
Acts 29 has planted 300 churches in the US, and more in 13 nations
250,000 people 1000 churches in 6 years
The Bible is right
Follow Your Calling
go out as sheep amoung wolves
Jesus says:
1 Watch out for Wolves
They are about taking people without the accent of the leadership of the Church
Try to manipulate and lie to divide the flock and pick off sheep to use them and abuse them (Doctrinal wolves, Power Hungry wolves, Moral Wolves)
In Pakistan, it is a very offensive to call someone a wolf, the highest insult
Also in Pakistan, a pastor who plants churches, was falsely accused of dissing Mohammed the false prophet, and after being exonotrated was shot to death and so was his brother
2 Seek the Peace and salvatio of Everyone
Sharing the gospel and ending the wrath currently leveled at them
3 Recieve whatever income is given
Strike up conversations with people and love on them
4 Heal the Sick and make the invisble kingdom visble
Casting out demonic oppression, praying that God will heal the sick to show God's Power
Jesus Says don't:
1 Bring money supplies, or food
2 Get distracted in long conversations, talk to people who may have interest in Jesus, look for the low hanging fruit
God my have already been working in their hearts and they would be willing to come to church or CG if only I ask
4 Move around and be hard to find - have a CG in a house and make it easy to find the outpost of that house - as the house fills up, replicate, have a willingness to split
Church Setup
Large gatherings and smaller home groups
There are two kinds of change: (No such thing as stasis)
Growth and harvest
Death and decline
Jesus Looking back on his sending of the 70
Some months later....
God provided didn't He? God is good for it
Taught the new Christians to serve and give
Now take money, pack some clothes, get a weapon
New method: Now Jesus sends them as warriors among wolves
God sends people out in two ways: (1) without supplies and on faith or (2) with backing and resources
*Where Do I serve How do is Give?
It all depends on the mission
Jesus the Strong Prophet
He calls people to repent of sin and then called down judgements on the unrepentent
Today wehave the best opportunity to see him and repent, but how bad will the eternal consequence be for those who don't repent?

True Greatness

Location: Ballard Campus
Preacher: Mark Driscoll
Date:8/1/10
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Tags: Parenting, Silence and Solitude
Luke 9:46-50
True Greatness
The disciples are having a conversation about who is the most awesome, while with Jesus
Jesus sees the inspiration (that came from him and hanging out with him) for greatness in his men and directs it toward a noble means to that end
Responding to Culture:
Receive
Common grace
Reject
Christian Crack, etc lol
Redeem
Sex, Arts, Technology
Options for Responding to the world's Defn of Greatness - Rejection
#1 Receive Greatness
Being famous is being great, narcissism - I am the center of the universe, my appearence, my self esteem, me me me
We are created to be mirrors not to look at a mirror
How many people view my Blog? My channel on You Tube?
How many people seek their own glory? How do I do this?
2 Extreme, self destructive, behavior gets you famous - Body image, anorexity,
Cutting, reality TV pushing the limits 320 today
3 People adopting celebrity behavior
4 Social Media promotes this
Dr Drew - Celebrities rely on the mirror
Pew Research Center 51% of 18-25yrolds saying being famous is the most important life pursuit
Lawrence Fishburne's Kid has her own porn film - Her goal is to be fammous
The Christian version of this is to believe that God is only there to bless me and make me into a winner, to be famous, to be really great
#2 Reject Greatness
I don't want to be great - in the name of false humility some pursue
No plan , no aggressiveness, living in the past,
The end is failure - The decision to not try
For Me I don't even look for the lady who could be my wife in the name of false humility and comfort.
Do I really not want to be a good man, good friend, good student?
I just figure that will be my end result so I fail to put in my best effort in my pursuit of my personal career
#3 Redeem Greatness
Jesus said to the disciples that they should pursue greatness by being llike a little kid
Kids were not highly valued in that day, couldn't be taught the holy scriptures - Just like our day, we abort the kids who get in the way of our greatness
Jesus' advice
Redeeming Greatness
G - Glorifying God alone
We are joyful, others are loved, God is glorified - Everyone Wins
Now people aren't used, they are loved
R - Reject unhealthy comparisons to others
Learn from wise people without unhealthily comparing myself to them
Comparing leads to depression and the breakdown of community
E - Enjoy Serving the Outcaste

A - Accept my life and Do my Best - Have aspirations and dreams, but accept what God gives and run as hard as possible with his blessings
T - Take Opportunities to Redeem my Ambitions
Why am I pouring myself into what I pursue?
Is
Rejoicing in others Greatness
Jesus tells the disciples to not fight those who are opposing satan and casting our demons
Be glad that God is getting glory even if they are on a different team/denomination/church
Transition toward Jesus settig his face toward the cross