Origins Week 2

Origins Week 2

“Love is the Context of it All”

(based on the notes, thoughts, and outline of Erwin McManus' New Origin's Project. Many thanks to the folks at Mosaic for helping push the Christ's dream for the church.)

They Started Simply

Acts 4:32-37

They Meant Spiritual and Physical Needs

Acts 5:14-16

They Were persecuted (in between every move they made)

They Had to Change to meet needs

Acts 6:1-7

There were Two Kind of leader Types

Eagle Leader

· An eagle leader soars above and has great visions.

Hawk Leader

· A hawk leader swoops down on it's target and is focused.

How we’ve changed over the centuries

· We tend to program what we're not good at.

· It is far more important to change what people care about then what people believe.

- people’s spiritual needs were met first because people of that time saw life as frail. A broken bone= loss of limb. A simple infection was deadly because there were no antibiotics.

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· We must move from talkers to changers of the course of history.

Are you doing just enough to feel like a Christian?