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The first session Louie Giglio preached on Ezekiel 37-the valley of the dry bones. His main point was about how God wants to do immeasurably more in my life than i can imagine. He then transitioned into Mark 9:14 about the boy convulsing and his point was that the prayer of 'help my unbelief!'. That was my favorite part. About how we need to pray that daily-for God to work through our unbelief.
Second session was Beth Moore and she preached from Matthew 26: 17-30. The Lord supper/passover. So in Exodus 6:6-17 there were 4 promises with the 4 liftings of the cup from Matthew; they go together.
Cup 1- I will bring you out.
Cup 2- I will deliver you from slavery.
Cup 3- I will redeem you.
Cup 4- I will take you as my people.
The point was how NOTHING was enough except Jesus. That each of the contents from the Passover was NOT enough. It needed all of it-and the time it was COMPLETE was the ONE time that Jesus was sitting at the head of the table-with the bread to be BROKEN, and the the LAMB (meat and Jesus) and the horseradish being the BITTERNESS of loss/slavery and Jesus taking the opposite of what is usually done with the wine. Saying for them to take ALL the wine from His cup, and not from their own. That salvation was OFFERED, but not forced via the wine.
Third session was this guy named Gary who talked on slavery. Told stories and what not so there isn't anything to write. It was good, but it wasn't preaching so I didn't take notes.
Fourth session was Francis Chan and preached on 2 Timothy 2:11-13. He talked about God fighting temptations for us and how when I am faithless, HE is faithful. He also talked about 1 John 1:9 and how we need to heartily believe it. That we are CLEAN in His eyes.
Fifth session was Judah Smith and he preached on 1 Peter 2:1-10 on community. How God is community-so obviously we are created to NEED community. That He is singular in nature but plural in person. Main's all is to reflect the image of our creator but is impossible alone! That the church's version of community is different than anyone else's community is JESUS CHRIST. He ended with asking our best definition of words like grace, love, faithfulness, joy...and of-course everyone had idea's and he ended each one with JESUS. He is the perfect example of it all.
The sixth session was a table-round discussion about slavery. It was good. No notes.
The seventh session was John Piper and He started with Revelation 5. That worship is the subjective echo to HIS objective worth. Admiration is the rarest and highest of pleasure. The intensity of our joy is the demonstration of His beauty and worth.
~Embrace suffering through the path of love for the cause of liberation~
Hebrews 10: 32-36; 11:24-26; 12:1-12
All of these examples are of people JOYFULLY accepting the suffering because they saw that there ARE better things. They looked to the reward and EMBRACED suffering.
Early Christians joyfully embraced sufferings because they saw the temporary fleeting things and the ultimate reward.
He then went into how philosophers say if you do something for the reward that it cancels out; that it is wrong motivations. However we as Christians NEED to look to the reward and that in fact it's helpful because in process you can bring people with you to the reward as you suffer. It was a cool way to look at life with Romans 8:31-39 in mind.
The eighth session was Louie Giglio finishing the valley of the dry bones. That We are either living in the 'everything has changed' that day, or the waiting for it to change. IT IS ON!!! That 'I was dead and am alive'. That needs to be our message the world!! That our witness to the world are our healed wounds. Jesus has His scars. Our freedom is for freedom!
Hey, thanks for this! I missed the JPipes session so it's good to see how it ended. Also, I wanna talk to you about the Beth Moore session- differeing thoughts and interpretations and whatnot :)
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