JESUS DOJO SESSIONS ON COMMUNITY STARTING MAY 24



WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 6:30 P.M. at 3166 25th St. San Francisco.

POTLUCK SHARED DINNER

A quick note about this coming Wednesday. We will begin our exploration into
the commands of Jesus related to community. Nate, Adam and I, with some help
from Kristen, have taken a look at the relational commands and tried to
organized them into 7 themes.

They are the following:

FORGIVENESS: Which includes "Do not judge;" and "Forgive one another"

ABANDON: "Give to the one who asks of you and do not turn away from the one
who wants to borrow from you...If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn the other cheek... If someone forces you to go one mile, go two
miles..."

HONOR: This one involves commands to fulfil obligations to family, employer,
and government."

ENCOURAGEMENT: These are the commands related to "the one anothers;" the
Eucharist and meeting together."

ONENESS: "May they be one as we are one."

HUMILITY: "The greatest among you will be your servant... At a banquet, take
the lowest seat..., "etc.

LOVE: "Love your neighbor... Love your enemies and pray for them... No one
has greater love than this, that thhey lay down their life for a friend."

So, on Wednesday we will be exploring the teaching of Jesus on Unity and
oneness. See particularly the prayer of Jesus in John 17 " 20"My prayer is
not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through
their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me
and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that
you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they
may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to
complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them
even as you have loved me. 24"Father, I want those you have given me to be
with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because
you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though
the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent
me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in
order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be
in them."

The goal of the Jesus dojo is that we would come up with practical and
tangible ways we intend to obey the commands of Jesus. So, on Wednesday,
come prepared to discuss what it might mean for us to "be one" as Jesus and
the father are one? What could we each do over the following week to seek
that oneness?

Posted: Mon - May 22, 2006 at 07:44 AM          

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