1. Introduction -
1.1. Chaucer
1.2. Bible - believe, live, proclaim
1.3. Section we are in makes this clear
1.3.1. ch 1`- thanking them for the believe
1.3.2. 1:27 - live it
1.3.3. 2:18 - proclaim it
2. Thesis
2.1. Paul connecting the work it out to the ground here - our attitudes
2.2. For Paul our identity should determine our behavior, and Paul here is betting a lot on the fact that the gospel preached and the gospel believed will be a gospel lived out. He bets on the fact that as Children of God, oru lives would be reflective of the father we are born into .
3. #1 - Our Attitude Matters
3.1. ironic as we talk about children
3.1.1. ILL: Kids didn't come home. Te refused to come home
3.2. ILL: Kevin - game show - life is overflowing
3.2.1. not a lesson on morality but on attitude
3.2.2. that's why were working with you
3.3. not being Eck and power of positive thinking - there is non, but this is lesson that atttitudes rooted in jesus makes an influence
3.4. app
3.4.1. no qualifier here - all, not sometiems
3.4.1.1. even in suffering
4. #2 - Our witness matters
5. our ambitions
5.1. easy to focus on crooked and twisted generation
5.1.1. not hard to see back then
5.1.1.1. phiippi - colony
5.1.2. not hard to see now
5.1.3. chaucer wrote cantebury tales 14th century indulgences
5.2. don't miss - In the midst of
5.2.1. not separated..
5.2.2. so in themidst of that in 1 cor 6 - if you don't hang out with the crooked you must leave the world. meanign for Paul, it was unfathomable your life would not cross the lives of sinners
5.2.3. can we jus taccept this, can we just stop shaking our heads and our fingers and be so "oh my"... and believe that God has us where he wants us
6. #4 - Our Relationships Matters
6.1. granted to suffer
6.2. Paul's life suffered for others
6.3. do we see our lives connected like this? It makes sense when you understand we are children gotegehr under God's family
6.3.1. ILL: Huys, Melody - ready to leave, packed, 3 or 4 weeks ...
6.3.2. Pratts for a year now - God is going to use all you went through ... and who knew that it would be us, especially us...