Matthew 28:16-20

This is a mission that we are to accomplish with God. It is our co-mission. So how do we accomplish this?

• GO
• MAKE DISCIPLES
• BAPTIZING THEM
• TEACHING THEM

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

• Catan is a Cooperative Game
• • 1 Corinthians 12:21

Catan is a game of wheeling and dealing, but it becomes a cooperative effort, just like our walk of faith. In Catan, if you don't trade with your neighbors, you won't succeed, and in our faith, if we don't do it with our church body, we won't grow. Even if we don't think we need anyone else to work out of faith, the body needs us.

• Catan is a game of chance
• • 1 Corinthians 12:11

In Catan, we have to work with the cards we're dealt. Sometimes they aren't the cards we want, in Christianity, sometimes we want the gifts of someone else, but God has already equipped us the way he wants. Are we doing anything with that equipping?

• Catan is a building game.
• • Ephesians 4:15

The point of Catan is to grow your roads and settlements, just as the point of Christianity is to qgrow. If you don't grow in the game, you won't win. Our faith is about growth, even if it's a slow or never ending process.

• Catan is a faith game
• • 2 Corinthians 5:7

Our walk of faith is similar to the development cards in Catan. Development cards are all helpful, but we never know which one you're going to get. God knows what's in store for us, but it takes faith on our part and trust in God when we don't know what's ahead but we give it to God anyway.

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Worry less about what someone else SAYS,

and more about what you DO

Luke 10:25-37

When confronted and tested, Jesus turns back to the questioner. Jesus knew the religious expert had the right answers, but his own prejudices and sinful nature prevented him from coming to them on his own. So Jesus tells a parable that shows us how far and wide our love is supposed to reach. Here are three things we should think about as we read this story:

• You know the answer
• There are no outsiders to love
• True love is shocking

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Acts 1:1-9

Knowing that God is in us and with us is wonderful and can be all we think we need. However, for followers of Christ, God being in us requires us to act on it - to go out and live so that God can work through us. What does it look like, God through us?

• Love
• Example
• Storytellers

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1 John 4:7-16

Discipline works for us until it doesn't. When we just try to do something or not do something, we often come to a point where we give up because our desires overcome our willpower.

God doesn't want to change your habits, he wants to change you.

How does God work in us? What does he want to change? He wants to change our:

• Mind
• Heart
• Actions

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Deuteronomy 30:11-16

In order to grow in our spiritual walk, it will be helpful for us to distill our need down to the one, most important thing that God is speaking to us about. So we have to figure out that most important thing for ourselves. So what is:

• The one thing you've heard
• One goal you'll set
• One action you'll take

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Hebrews 5:11-14

We all face potholes on our road to Christian maturity. These potholes set us back, and oftentimes we don't see them in our own lives. Here are some potholes that we often deal with:

• You're not smart
• • Proverbs 12:15; 26:12
• It's not that you're not smart, it's that you're not listening
• • Romans 12:2a
  • Matthew 5:21-22
• Your vision is bad
• • Matthew 6:22-23
  • Three lenses you see though: Your insecurity; Your desires; Your pain
• You're a runner
• • Genesis 3:8

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Matthew 4:1-11

There are usually two ways the enemy tempts us: he gets us to doubt our identity in God, or he gets us to believe in our identity outside of God. But ultimately, we have to make the decision to believe and do what we want - Satan can only tempt, he can't force us to do anything. Yet it is all too easy for us to press into the idea that we can, in a sense, be our own gods. In order to combat this temptation, we must recognize:

• Your God complex
• There can be only one
• Only God can rule: rightly, effectively, and justly

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