Q3 - The Fall Of Humanity
Teaching Map:
3.01 – Stories - Garbage: This teaching explores the concept of shame and how it pervades our culture. Shame was an attack on one’s dignity. Love was a direct response to shame and sough to restore a person’s dignity to wholeness.
3.02 - Stories - Deep: Learning to reveal our soul is an interesting process. Every moment is a choice to put on a mask or show our true self. This teaching explores how even God had to take a risk in revealing who He was, and in doing so showed us that it was okay.
3.03 - Stories - Cookies: What does it mean when God hands over the world to His creation? This teaching explores the idea that God teaches us trust by first trusting us with His creation. God consistently shows His very nature of love by showing us trust.
3.04 - Stories - Enemy: How do we account for the pain that exists in the world? This teaching begins the process of exploring the idea of another Kingdom that already exists in the universe and is present in the Garden. How we choose to deal with that fact is paramount to our growth.
3.05 - Stories - Judge: This teaching explores the second tree within the Garden of Eden. It was called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It was a symbol of the freedom that was available in the Garden State. And with it came the capacity to experience evil and separation from God. With that knowledge came the need to judge, which we were never meant to hold.
3.06 - Stories - Breach: How do we reconcile the fact that humans are the one’s that cause so much of the world’s pain? This teaching explores the separation of God from His creation at what is known as the fall. It takes a deep look into how this fall deeply wounds mankind.
3.07 – Work - Root: This teaching explores the necessity of identifying our own brokenness. Jesus came for the sick. And this self-identification process is deeply restorative and necessary. Engaging work is central to the maturity process. It means getting to the root of the fruit.
3.08 - Stories - Dress: With the fall of Adam and Eve we begin to immediately see how humans respond when they are separated from God. This teaching explores how the wounds show up in men and women throughout history in a surprisingly similar way.
3.09 – Stories - Bluebird: Even in the Garden God gives us a glimpse of our destiny. This teaching explores the presence of the Tree of Life in the Garden and how God chose to protect His creation from a spiritual paradox.
3.10 – Stories - Chocolates: This teaching explores the self-destructive consequences of the lie, which leads us into the downward spiral of the enemy’s kingdom. We often make offerings to cover the lie but God calls us out for the sake of our own restoration.
3.11 – Stories - Walk: This teaching explores what it the lives of those who walked with God. This simple practice was central to engaging relationship with God and true intimacy.
