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Vulnerability (1 John 1:5-2:2)
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SERMON NOTES
Sermon Series: Distinctives
Sermon Title: Vulnerability
Sermon Text: 1 John 1:5-2:2
God is Light (v5)
The light is good (Genesis 1:1-4) and safe (Psalm 27:1)
The light represents God’s presence (Exodus 3, Exodus 13) and holiness (Psalm 104:1-2)
First Claim (v6-7)
Three warnings of the danger of darkness
Sin separates you from God and each other
Sin leads you out of the light and into the darkness
Shame keeps you hiding in the darkness
Second Claim (v8-9)
We deceive ourselves into thinking the darkness is safe and good by:
Hiding our sin
Ignoring our sin
Excusing our sin
Justifying our sin
Redefining our sin
Tolerating our sin
Embracing our sin
Third Claim (1:10-2:2)
How we can create a culture of vulnerability together
Initiate vulnerability
Invite vulnerability
Be caring, not curious
Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slower to suggest
Show up so you can follow-up
Receive what is shared in confidentiality
My prayer for us as a church
Help us see the ways we have hidden our sin from God, others, and ourselves
Help us bring our sin out of the darkness and in to the light
Help us create a culture of vulnerability
Help us take a step of courage this week by sharing with someone
SERMON FOOTNOTES
“Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of the unexpressed it poisons the whole being of a person.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (1954, p112)
“We recognize early and often that shame tends to be self-reinforcing. When we experience shame, we tend to turn away from others because the prospect of being seen or known by another carries the anticipation of shame being intensified or reactivated. However, the very act of turning away, while temporarily protecting and relieving us from our feeling (and the gaze of the ‘other’), ironically simultaneously reinforces the very shame we are attempting to avoid. Notably, we do not necessarily realize this to be happening - we’re just trying to survive the moment. But indeed this dance between hiding and feeling shame itself becomes a tightening of the noose. We feel shame, and then feel shame for feeling shame. It begets itself.” - Curt Thompson, The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves (2015, p31)
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Manage episode 377213026 series 1056093
SERMON NOTES
Sermon Series: Distinctives
Sermon Title: Vulnerability
Sermon Text: 1 John 1:5-2:2
God is Light (v5)
The light is good (Genesis 1:1-4) and safe (Psalm 27:1)
The light represents God’s presence (Exodus 3, Exodus 13) and holiness (Psalm 104:1-2)
First Claim (v6-7)
Three warnings of the danger of darkness
Sin separates you from God and each other
Sin leads you out of the light and into the darkness
Shame keeps you hiding in the darkness
Second Claim (v8-9)
We deceive ourselves into thinking the darkness is safe and good by:
Hiding our sin
Ignoring our sin
Excusing our sin
Justifying our sin
Redefining our sin
Tolerating our sin
Embracing our sin
Third Claim (1:10-2:2)
How we can create a culture of vulnerability together
Initiate vulnerability
Invite vulnerability
Be caring, not curious
Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slower to suggest
Show up so you can follow-up
Receive what is shared in confidentiality
My prayer for us as a church
Help us see the ways we have hidden our sin from God, others, and ourselves
Help us bring our sin out of the darkness and in to the light
Help us create a culture of vulnerability
Help us take a step of courage this week by sharing with someone
SERMON FOOTNOTES
“Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of the unexpressed it poisons the whole being of a person.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (1954, p112)
“We recognize early and often that shame tends to be self-reinforcing. When we experience shame, we tend to turn away from others because the prospect of being seen or known by another carries the anticipation of shame being intensified or reactivated. However, the very act of turning away, while temporarily protecting and relieving us from our feeling (and the gaze of the ‘other’), ironically simultaneously reinforces the very shame we are attempting to avoid. Notably, we do not necessarily realize this to be happening - we’re just trying to survive the moment. But indeed this dance between hiding and feeling shame itself becomes a tightening of the noose. We feel shame, and then feel shame for feeling shame. It begets itself.” - Curt Thompson, The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves (2015, p31)
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