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Mar 15, 2020

Encounters: What We Can't Grow Out Of (Click here for Resources)

Passage: Mark 10:13-16

Speaker: Patrick Lafferty

Series: Encounters with Jesus

Category: Grace Mills River

Keywords: trust, hope, child, need, wonder, dependent

We often try to “adult” our faith and spirituality way too much, potentially resulting in us merely believing in the “logical Jesus” or over “theologizing” Jesus rather than coming to him like a child “wide eyed and mystified”. Jesus invites us to put down our “big boy” strategies and challenges, crawl up on his lap and actually ENJOY him. Come needy, open-eyed and open-handed, like a little child. Then consider how a child EXPRESSES their enjoyment...with full unbridled and contagious enthusiasm with no embarrassment whatsoever.

3.15.20 GMR Service from Graceworks Media on Vimeo.

 

ORDER of Worship

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 46:1-3, 10-11 

MUSIC: 

  • BE STILL MY SOUL
  • OH THE DEEP DEEP, LOVE OF JESUS
  • It Is Well
  • BAND: Guitar & Vocals - Jeff Whisenant, Vocals - Becky Whisenant & Amanda Hunt

OT Reading: Psalm 27:1-5, 13-14

NT Reading: Romans 8:31-39

PRAYER (concluding with Lord’s Prayer)

CENTRAL TEXT: Mark 10:13-16

MESSAGE: What We Can’t Grow Out Of

BENEDICTION: Numbers 6:24-26

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • Deuteronomy 28:4
  • Psalm 127:3-5
  • Matthew 5:3
  • Mark 9:33-37
  • John 1:12
  • John 3:3-5

ILLUSTRATIONS:

QUOTES:

  • “A little child has absolutely nothing to bring, and whatever a child receives, he or she receives by grace on the basis of sheer neediness rather than by any merit inherent in him- or herself....only empty hands can be filled” - James Edwards 
  • “Every child is an artist. The trick is remaining one when you grow up.” - Picasso
  • “ The demand that a man become as a little child calls for a fresh realization that he is utterly helpless in his relationship to the kingdom...The kingdom may be entered only by one who knows he is helpless and small, without claim or merit...The unchildlike piety of achievement must be abandoned in the recognition that to receive the kingdom is to allow oneself to be given it”” - William Lane
  • “A child gives himself fully to the littlest tasks without being ashamed of the task’s littleness.” - F.D. Bruner 
  • From John Piper “Desiring God”: When we humble ourselves like little children and put on no airs of self-sufficiency, but run happily into the joy of our Father’s embrace, the glory of his grace is magnified and the longing of our soul is satisfied. Our interest and his glory become one. (Added by C. Morgan) 

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