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DEEP CHURCH Week 2 The Genuine Article Session 1 How do we - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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DEEP CHURCH Week 2 The Genuine Article Session 1 How do we tell T ruth from Error? If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is Real or fake? Before and after Before and after What is truth? John 18:33-38 Greek:
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“If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is”
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Real or fake?
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Before and after
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Before and after
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What is truth? John 18:33-38
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Greek: aletheia - to ‘reveal’ or ‘un-hide’ Hebrew: emeth - ‘firmness,’ ‘constancy’
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John 14:6: ‘I am the way, the TRUTH and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me’
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John 8:31-32: ‘If you hold to my words you truly are my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.’
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John 17:17: ‘Protect them from the evil
- ne. Sanctify them by
the truth, for your word is truth.’
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John 8:44: “He was a murderer from the
- beginning. He has
always hated the truth because there is no truth in him.
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When he lies it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar, and the father
- f all lies.’
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T ruth is not simply what is logical or plausible or coherent
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T ruth is not simply whatever gets the right result
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T ruth is not necessarily what everyone says is true
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T ruth is not what makes you feel good
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T ruth is not what you believe
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Where, how, and when was God’s truth established?
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Revelation + Institution = “Deep T ruth”
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Revelation: God’s story told through his word
- f truth
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Institution: The ongoing activity of the Holy Spirit in the Church in every age
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John 15:26: ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father – the SPIRIT OF TRUTH who goes
- ut from the Father – he
will testify about me.’
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John 16:13: ‘But when he, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, comes he will lead you into all truth.’
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The Spirit’s affirmation and renewal of the word of truth:
- 4. Creeds and doctrine
- 3. Liturgy
- 2. Interpretation and
translation of the Bible
- 1. Canon of Scripture
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Orthodoxy - ‘T rue Belief’ Holy T rinity – one God in three Persons Christ – fully divine and fully human
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Haeresis – choice; choosing; course of action; school of thought
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Heresies of the early Church
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‘That which has been believed everywhere (ubique), always (semper) and by all people (ab omnibus)’
St Vincent of Lérins (5th C.)
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1 John 2:21: ‘No lie comes from the truth’
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2 Tim.4:3-4: ‘The time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
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number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth, and turn aside to myths.’
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1 John 4.3-6: ‘Every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which is already in the
- world. These people
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are from the world, and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to
- them. But we are from
God, and whoever knows
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God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.’
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Session 2: True Lies
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What the culture wants you to believe
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What is Culture?
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Every culture has its
- rthodoxies
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Challenges to
- rthodox
Christian-based culture
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Internal and external
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‘ A God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgement through the ministration of Christ without a cross.’
- H. Richard Niebuhr
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What are today’s
- rthodoxies?
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‘-isms’
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- Atheism
- Relativism
- Individualism
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Henry Ford said of his model T car: “You can have any colour you like, as long as it's black."
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Responding to challenges of the culture
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Flight or Fight
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Flight: withdrawal from the culture
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Fight: engagement with the culture
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Accommodation: ‘He who marries the Spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next’
William Ralph Inge
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IN but not OF the world: the challenge of Christ in our culture
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John 17. 6-19: “I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word
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and the world has hated them, for they are not
- f the world any more
than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of
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the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not
- f the world, even as I
am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth;
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your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
- world. For them I sanctify
myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.’
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If the God of the Bible and orthodox tradition exists – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ – then the entire
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culture and every culture is answerable to Him, and we, individually, are accountable to Him in every area of life.
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Discussion: Can we still speak about absolute truth, right and wrong, good and evil, in today’s culture? If so, how? If not, why not?
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Next Week:
‘Once upon
a time’: understanding
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