Disruptive Discipleship | Week 1 - Resilience over Compromise

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Big idea:

In a culture of compromise, followers of Jesus must lean into a disruptive discipleship that embodies resilience.

The following is a teaching for Contrast Church’s launch team gathering on Sunday evening, Jan 10th, 2021.

The biblical texts used throughout the teaching are:

• Daniel 1

• 1 Peter 1-2

• Luke 22

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Training Notes:

5 Practices for Resilient followers of Jesus.

*From Faith for Exiles

1. Experience intimacy with Jesus

   1. This is done powerfully with others (like CORE), 

   2. Asking big questions and finding the answers in Jesus, 

   3. Learn what it means to talk to God, but also listen and respond in conviction.

2. Develop the muscles of cultural discernment

   1. Don’t live under a rock, anchor to the Bible and trust its convictions on you.

   2. Don’t just engage, prepare to engaged.

   3. Learn how to have theology with a cultural backbone.

3. Forge meaningful, intergenerational relationships.

   1. Have a group of people that you love, but sometimes don’t like  (they call you on your crap).

   2. Have someone ahead of you, helping you navigate

   3. Be someone who is worth being around, be vulnerable.

4. Train for vocational discipleship

   1. Form a good theology of work and calling.

   2. Find meaningful ways to engage in mission at your work.

5. Engage in Countercultural mission.

   1. Curb entitlement and self-centeredness by serving

   2. Don’t always put safety first.

   3. Embody a Godly sexual ethic (more on that in a few weeks).

   4. Lead with love