Church notes - 21 January 2018

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21st January
In First Term - 11th Feb - 1st Apr
Jesus the Game Changer
The Legacy of Jesus

Simplify - 10 practices to unclutter your soul.
Fear
e.g. Hawaiian missile alert

Fear is a fealing induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behaviour, such as fleeing, hiding or freezing or hding from perceived traumatic events.

Genesis 3
The Fall
- Fear entered into the world

Psalm 27
In the midst of his fear, David turned to God.
God didn't change David's experience but had given David perspective, such that fear wasn't his master any longer.

We need to be in a committed relationship with God.
vs 1
David is showing a lack of fear. A new sense of confidence.

"The Older I get the more nervous I become" - Bertrand Russel.
"My bags are packed. I'm ready to go," a Christian leader two weeks before his death.

Romans 8
Nothing should separate us from God, or produce fear in our heart.

Psalm 23
Close to the LORD, close to God.

Ps 27:3
God is with us, no matter the circumstance we're in.

1 John 4:15 - 18
We should have confidence on the Day of Judgement, in the forgiveness that Jesus gave us on the Cross, we can have a sense of peace.