Worship Folder

Outline

Hook: What is the "all caps" of Christianity?

I. BOASTING
"Perhaps the less we have the more required we are to brag." - John Steinbeck

II. THE CROSS
"It wasn't History or Affliction - or the way they live in us as the body's terror, the mind's screaming, the soul's despair - that would get to decide what things are. It was the Cross that would get to decide what things are." - John Andrew Bryant

III. NEW CREATION
"What is to be true of you in the future must begin to be true in the present, or it will be called into question whether you are really on track in the first place." - N.T. Wright

Takeaway: Bear the marks of Jesus.

Resources

• John Andrew Bryant, A Quiet Mind to Suffer With
• Tim Keller, ”Boasting in the Cross” sermon
• John Stott, The Cross of Christ
• N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope