1. Woes 1+2 - Discipleship
1.1. Woe #1- Shut the Kingdom in people's faces
1.2. Woe #2 - Find a convert - make them twice a child of hell as you
1.3. TODAY - Emphasis on saving souls but not considering the life we're inviting them into
1.4. First Pres - we've shrunk and want to grow - but if we only focus on getting people back, we'll neglect that we've been kind of nasty to one another. More people will not help us love one another. People from both sides want to get rid of the other.
2. Woes 3+4 - Teaching
2.1. Woe #3 - Temple and gold in temple, altar and gift on altar
2.1.1. Today - False Distinctions and Binaries
2.1.2. Theology and Practice Dichotomy
2.1.3. Body/Soul, Religion/Politics, Sacred/Secular, Ordained/Lay
2.2. Woe #4 - Tithing spices, neglecting weightier matters. Do both!
2.2.1. 1951 - care for the building & community
2.2.2. Worship - the way we worship and the goal of worship
2.2.3. Education - ratio of study to action
2.3. My own complaining - missing Jesus walking by and asking us to Follow Him
3. Woes 5+6 - Appearance
3.1. Woe #5 - Clean the inside of the cup then the outside shall be clean
3.2. Familiar with exterior not matching the interior
3.3. Jesus getting at something different
3.3.1. Equating appearance of godliness with godliness - it became a stage production
3.3.2. Church attendance = close relationship with God
3.3.3. First Pres - historic church - I'm somebody cause I work here
3.3.4. Attendance at First Pres = godliness
3.3.5. Or we let the external appearance inform our reality - we're a historic church - that's enough
3.3.6. Story - thinking about sermon - annual meeting - why do we say how long we've been here?
3.4. Woe #6 - Whitewashed tombs
4. Word of Grace - I may be wrong but opening up the coffin leads to resurrection.
5. Sheep
5.1. Church
5.2. EMI
5.2.1. Bible
5.3. Hypocrisy
5.3.1. Pie
5.3.1.1. Horshoes/Handgrenades