Q11 – No Greater Love
Title: No Greater Love – Understanding The Cross
Workbook Summary: In this eleventh workbook, groups explore the concept of the cross as the place of redemption and answer to suffering. It includes conversations and exercises on the nature of suffering, the cross, redemption, anger, the atonement, expectations, creating a new story, and more.
It include leadership instructions, reflection questions, teachings, group discussion questions, exercises, assignments, and suggested materials to use during the quarter.
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Reading Map:
11.01 – Stories – Life: This teaching explores the concept of revelation in the person of Jesus. So much of our journey happens through hearing and seeing. So what does it look like to actually see and hear? An experience with Peter helps us capture an insight into the revelation the Holy Spirit provides. And that revelation always leads to is love.
11.02 – Stories – Purpose: This teaching explores the call to sacrifice that Jesus invites us into. Love is most revealed in our sacrifice. And as Jesus invites to participate, we find that our sacrifices become a central part in our own restoration. In becoming a sacrifice we too become the space where love resides. Sacrifice then becomes a call to freedom, to be who we are designed to be.
11.03 – Stories – Give: This teaching explores the concept of communion. Much more than an elaborate ritual, it invited us into participation with Jesus. It was one the final expression Jesus gave the disciples that helped begin the process of ending religion.
11.04 – Stories – Return: This teaching explores humanity’s return to the scene of the crime: the Garden. By returning to the Garden, Jesus is tangibly connecting the dots for us to discover that what God is going goes all the way back to the beginning. The final moments of Jesus’ life reveal the gauntlet that love endures to end oppression and suffering.
11.05 – Stories – Problems: This teaching explores the questions we inherently ask, all which lead us to the question of love and suffering. How do we reconcile what God is doing in the world? It explores the darker spaces that suffering brings, often called the crucible. But it invites us into participating in the redemption of suffering.
11.06 – Work – Redemption: This teaching explores the concept of redemption. It answers the fundamental question, “Where do we put our anger?” The answer is at the cross. By trading in our anger, our hands become available to the very life we are seeking. We can now choose the upward spiral.
11.07 – Stories – Closure: This teaching explores what it means to give up our expectations for God’s abundant reality. But giving up what we expect is not easy. It often means going through painful realities of abandonment and failure. How we deal with that failure is key to our own growth.
11.08 – Stories – Live: This teaching explores the concept of resurrection. Jesus came to give us an entirely new lens in which to view life. His resurrection invited us into our own resurrection, to be the space where it happens. But to get there we have to conquer our own fears and doubts.
11.09 – Stories – Permission: This teaching explores the concept of permission. When Jesus gave us the Great Commission, He was inviting us into the next step of leadership. And He was also giving us permission to lead. We who had followed and sat at the footsteps of Jesus were now being asked to lead others in the way of Jesus. And this invitation was critical to our own restoration. It kept us from falling into the Leadership Trap.
11.10 – Stories – Risk: The teaching explores how Jesus left. His decision to leave opened the way for the Spirit to come into our lives. But we must also receive the Spirit, who becomes our transformation. This very Spirit of God walks along side of us and gives us wisdom.
11.11- Stories – Neighbor: This teaching explores the beginning to the ecclesia, or church. The assembly of those who were following Jesus revealed a powerfully alternative way of living. It was based on love and provided a very simple way of living out the Gospel. It also included remembering the poor.