Q12 – Making All Things New
Title: Making All Things New – Exploring The Other Side Of The Cross
Workbook Summary: In this twelfth workbook, groups explore what life looks like on the other side of the cross. It includes conversations and exercises on the grace, persecution, license, responsible freedom, want, judgment, the end of the 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:
12.01 – Stories – Released: This teaching explores the restoration of all things, one of the central themes in Scripture. God is actively working toward the restoration all of creation. This includes ourselves, our neighbors, our enemies, and the world around us. It’s much bigger than we often think but calls us to participate by following Jesus into the practice of love.
12.02 – Stories – Growing: This teaching explores the inherent conflict between confronting the oppressive authorities in our lives and submitting to community that becomes critical to our own restoration. It also asks what corporate discipline looks like in the kingdom. Navigating these tensions are critical to the ecclesia.
12.03 – Stories – Suffering: This teaching explores the persecution we will experience as we reveal the kingdom of God. Suffering is part of the journey and is to be expected. But when we do accept the suffering, we just may be part of someone’s restoration.
12.04 – Stories – License: This teaching explores the radical concept of grace and the tension between license and responsibility. Grace doesn’t release us to license but instead calls us to a responsible freedom that is restorative.
12.05 – Stories – Lost: This teaching explores the tension of returning to our old life based upon earning God’s love. What does it look like to get lost? The pull back to religion was the central concern for the new followers of Jesus and represented a step backwards into prison.
12.06 – Stories – Scream: This teaching explores the concept of want and our stuff. What happens when it controls us? To be released from want was central to the story and opened us up to giving generously to those in true need. It releases us to be love in the moment and shine like stars in the universe.
12.07 – Work – Creativity: This teaching continues the exploration of work. It takes a look at the power of words to heal and the speak truth into someone’s life. It includes insights on what it means to be a friend and to explore creativity in love.
12.08 – Stories – Trip: This teaching explores the power of stories in our lives and what happens when we lose God’s story. The power of love was to reveal the story in our lives and reveal our transformation. It calls us to destroy the relationship ladder in our lives that keeps us from death.
12.09 – Stories – Tomorrow: The teaching explores the extremely controversial topic of how the story ends. Many possibilities have been provided with evidence to support each one. But what if there is a different point to the evidence, one that places the power back into the hands of God.
12.10 – Stories – Home: The teaching explores the value of coming home to God? It includes the concept of complete restoration in the new heavens and new earth. God’s final response is to transform the world we live in, including our bodies. Death will be no more and our capacity to live will likely be defined by an eternal grace.