RED

Cost: Leaving Your Culture For

The Sake Of Christ
An Accident
There IS a Problem
• Treating the sickness
is harder and more
uncomfortable than
focusing on the
symptoms.
• Jesus did not just
treat symptoms but
the causes of
Problems.
 There IS a Problem

• Read Luke 14: 26-33

• Any movement, ministry, or day in day out
way of living pushing you to exalt Christ in
your life requires you to be aware of what
you need and what you have to give up.
 Jesus is not a politician

• Jesus did not politic His words. He drew a line

in the sand.
• The prophet Isaiah said that there would be
nothing on the outside that would attract people
to Jesus.
 Stop! Before You Go On…
• For the SAT test there
are several stop signs
in the test.
• In the book of Luke
Jesus told us the cost
of living out
CHRISTianity First as
our culture.
 I Dare You
• When we hear Jesus speaking harshly
there is the temptation to treat it as “heart
language”
• I dare you to look at Luke 14:26-33 more
closely, to take it literally. Because I think
Christ was more serious than we want
Him to be.
• So what do you think Jesus meant in Luke
14: 26-33?

• What does it look like to live CHRISTianity

as Jesus preached it?
 Real Life
• What about our experiences about steeping out of culture
and race?

• But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy

nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare
the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you
are the people of God; once you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10, NIV)
History of Adam
• In Genesis 1:26-28
we are told of the
purpose of our
creation was to be
caretaker of His
creation.
• In Genesis 2:16-17
God tells Adam and
Eve the rules for
being in the garden.
 Jewish History
• The children of Israel are the chosen people of
God.
• They took it seriously but is it the way God
intended for them.
• Read Genesis 12:1-3
 Peter and Paul
• In Acts 1:8 Christ last
words to the disciples
were to witness to the
ends of the earth.
• Yet even Peter
walked away from the
truth of everyone
being part of salvation
until Paul corrected
him.
The Red Lens
• We all see the world
in different lenses.
• But what lens are we
looking through?
• Because we live what
we believe – not what
we know.