Pew2U
3D Grace
January 8, 2017
Highlights:
God is not waiting for us to get ourselves cleaned up in order to pursue relationship with us.
Good fruit is the result of good care and good pruining.
Why does God prune us?
Christ is building His Church.
He is a loving father.
3D Grace
Defined boundaries
Detailed expectations
Direct involvement
Discussion Questions:
In what ways are you currently experiencing God’s pruining?
Based on what we heard today from Aaron, what is God’s purpose in the pruining He is doing in your life?
How is God currently:
Defining boundaries
Detailing expectations
Directly involving Himself in your life?
From question three: how is the result of God working in these ways equal an experience of grace in your relationship with Him?
Key Scriptures:
-The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:1-3 NIV
-“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
John 15:1-2 NIV
-But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 NIV
-So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:11-16 NIV
-The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Psalm 103:8 NIV