Personal notes from a Sunday morning at Denton Bible Church:

Music:

• Sing to the King
• Holy is the Lord
• Rescue
• Take My Life and Let It Be
• Where He Leads Me

Text Reading: Titus 3:1-11

Sermon Notes (guest preacher Mike Scheer):

• Guilty…Argumentative…Christians are the most
• Response to conflict: 1) overlook, 2) talk it out, 3) ask for help
• Ask yourself: why in the working world, Christians are thought to be selfish, immature, opinionated, short on hard work – they make for a bad environment
• Ver1-3: What does a Christian look like in the real world
• FCA make sure the tongue in your shoe lines up with the tongue in your mouth
• Christian Behaviors Action (Ver1-3), Words (Ver4-7), Attitude (Ver 8-11)
• Behaviors: 1) submit to rulers – our responsibility, 2) obey and obedience, 3) look for ways to make things better – don’t just be passively obedient, 4) malign no one – don’t run them down; don’t attack anyone; got an issue with someone, go to them; when wronged, we want to aggressively make it right when really we should just “let it go”…that’s being a Christian – 5) be gentle…give grace to people; God does want or expect hatefulness in people, 7) gentleness to all men
• God acted in grace to others, we should too
• those that “say what I think” are foolish; think first what would God have us do? He wants our reaction to be from thought and theology
• Christian foolishness is disobedience, deception, enslaved to lust
• Christian foolishness is not neutral, its negative
• Christian foolishness leads to a life of selfishness – “I do (think) what I want to do (think)…I don’t care about you do or what you think”
• Christian foolishness gives a heart of malice, make us envious of others, gives a  hatred of others; you become (to the foolish Christian) an obstacle…also you are an object, a tool to get what you want
• we are not much different that those that frustrate us now
• good deeds do not equal salvation…instead good deeds are a result of salvation
• ver7: God has a purpose for us; “pay it forward”, meaning pass on good behavior and discipline; God is gracious to us, we “pay it forward” and be gracious to others
• ver8: “so that” we can be leaders of good leaders
• false teachers are those that complain, argue, do no good, and have bad behaviors
• God saved us TO something…not FROM something
• out reach: make an appointment for that; 5 groups: informed, initiated, integrated, involved, invested
• your gifts, talents, experiences – if you’re not serving the community, all are missing out
• make our mistakes on the move, not on our complacency