Irresistible

Why do people tend to like Jesus but not His Church?

How do we return to being the irresistible community of Jesus followers?

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.  But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 5:27-31

• When you see JESUS, you see GOD.

Irreligious people found Jesus IRRESISTIBLE. 

Religious people found Jesus REPULSIVE.

Does your version of God look like Jesus?

• When Jesus SEES you, He CALLS you. 

The Way of Jesus

Relationship: BELONG   →   BELIEVE   →   BECOME

Result: ACCEPTANCE   →   FELLOWSHIP   →   TRANSFORMATION 

The Way of the Pharisee

Religion: BELIEVE   →   BEHAVE   →   BELONG

Result: PRIDE   →    EXCLUSIVITY   →    HYPOCRISY

• When Jesus enters your STORY, you can’t help but SHARE. 

• When you trust Jesus, He RESCUES and HEALS.

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:16-17

"God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people.  And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.”

- Henri Nouwen

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