11. Assisting Non-Believers: Love, Questions/Answers, Point toward the Gospel Growing Believers: Essential Christian Disciplines, Core Truth (Gospel/ Bible/ Theology), Growing Fruitfulness, Community, Service, Resource Difficulties: Counsel, Support, Prayer, Gentle Rebuke, Peacemaking
12. Gospel Imbalance At the core, we experience spiritual pathologies when the Gospel (in all its fullness) is misunderstood or forgotten. We tend to fall off on one side of the gospel or the other and lead imbalanced lives, we weaken our assurance of salvation, resulting in spiritual pathologies. If the Gospel is “You are far more sinful than you ever dared imagine, yet in Christ you are far more loved than you ever dared hope,” we see that there are two basic kinds of spiritual pathologies: temptation and accusation. In temptation, the holiness of God (the first half of the Gospel) is forgotten. This leads to a weak view of sin. In accusation, the grace of God (the second half of the Gospel) is forgotten. This leads to a weak view of mercy. The libertine on the one hand and the legalist on the other both experience spiritual difficulties. -Tim Keller
13. Gospel Imbalance TEMPTATION Heart and Satan tempts us Too light a view of sin and holiness Presumption, lack of conviction, lack of means of grace Idols of comfort / power Loss of assurance by violation of conscience Remedy: Convince of the goodness of God and his holiness ACCUSATION (GUILT) Heart and Satan accuse Too light a view of grace and love Guiltiness, drivenness, discouragement, pride, judgment Idols of approval / control Loss of assurance by denial of forgiveness and grace Remedy: convince of Christ’s substituting work, freedom from sin
14. A Church Culture of Discipleship Membership Worship /Preaching / Teaching Community Groups Prayer Ministry Teams Classes Deliberate Relationships KEY: RELATIONSHIPS OVER PROGRAMS
15. Group Discussion How can Grace Church to become more able to recognize people’s spiritual needs and assist them in growth?
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17. Main Themes at Grace Discipleship Vision 2020 | 10th Anniversary Communication
