Cover Bands Don’t Change the World - Combination of Spirit and Flesh
January 24, 2010
Pastor Jon Hand
Listen to Sermon: Cover Bands Don’t Change the World - Combination of Spirit and Flesh
Books for digging deeper to integrate the Spiritual and the Physical.
Sex–Sex God- Rob Bell
Marriage–Love and Respect - Emerson Eggerichs
Work–God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in all of Life - Gene Edward Veith
Creativity–The Complete Artist Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice - Julia Cameron
Community Group Discussion Guide
Getting Started
1. Talk about a time when you felt you were especially creative, or a time when you witnessed someone else creatively approaching a situation. What made it so creative?
2. Jon talked about creativity often being the joining of two different ideas to make something new and unique. What are some examples of this? How can this idea be applied to our lives of faith?
From the Book
1. Read Luke 3:7-14. When the people ask John the Baptist what they need to do to live a life of repentance, what does he tell them? What might this mean for a “secular” person? What might this mean for a “religious” person?
2. Read Matthew 9:9-13. How is Jesus being creative in this situation? What makes it so creative?
What are the results?
3. Do you agree with the following quote? If so, what does this mean for our lives?
“Spirituality in human beings is not an extra or “superior” mode of existence. It’s not a hidden stream of separate reality, a separate life running parallel to our bodily existence. It does not consist of special ‘inward’ acts even though it has an inner aspect. It is, rather, a relationship of our embodied selves to God that has the natural and irrepressible effect of making us alive to the Kingdom of God - here and now in the material world.” - Dallas Willard
So What?
1. Consider the following areas of your life: Career, Family, Love Life, Health, Faith, Mind, Finances, Friends. Which area do you have the hardest time seeing God involved in? Take some time to pray about that area. Invite God to show you how to creatively involve Him in that area of your life. If you like, talk about about it with someone you trust.
2. Who are the “tax collectors” in your life. How can you creatively engage them with the love of Christ?
