Last night in flipside!!! (9/28)

Last night was really awesome!!! Everything seemed to go over so well and the message was really impacting. There were several flipsiders that updated their status on facebook with what we hit on last night and that was awesome!!! I’ve got to admit, there are times that I wonder…. Are they listening? Are they getting this? I really felt that the message last night, really hit home for several students.

Before I share the notes on last night’s message, let me say THANK YOU for all of you that were involved in my B-day gift!!! To get $$$ is always nice and I was able to buy something that I’ve been keeping my eye on for sometime now. I was torn between 2 things but I think I made the better choice out of the 2:-) I will be able to use it at the office, home, and when I travel. I will show it to you guys on Wednesday night!!! I truly always look forward to Wednesday night cause I get to see all you flipsiders!!!Last night we started a new series titled “Weird” and we hit on “Weird in a God Way.” Here is a copy of my notes and I encourage you to follow a long:

  • Weird means involving or suggesting the supernatural, unearthly, or uncanny. It also means to be fantastic or bizarre.
  • Before I read this, I thought it was going to be talk about being “different” or “unusual.”
  • The way weird is defined, it really pumps me up cause this is what we are called to be.
  • Read that definition again and you can see what I mean….
  • As a follower of Christ we are to be involved/suggested with the supernatural, unearthly, and the uncanny.
  • We are not to be like this world (unearthly) and we are to walk in the supernatural.
  • Jesus walked in the supernatural, just read the the first 4 books of the New Testament and you will see what I mean.
  • So, you can probably see that there are very few people that can say they are “weird”
  • For those of you that are normal and not “weird” check this scripture out..
  • Read Matthew 7:13 & 14….
  • Many = those that are “normal” & few= those that are “weird”
  • The wide gate leads to hell (Just being real) and the narrow gate leads to heaven.
  • So, ask yourself this question: What gate are you walking through?
  • This is they way we need to look at it…
  • If you want what normal people have, do what normal people do.
  • If you want what few people have, then do what few people do.
  • When it comes to being “weird,” “weird” people don’t think like normal people think
  • Romans 12:2 (New International Revised Version)- Don’t live any longer the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Then you will be able to test what God wants for you. And you will agree that what He wants is right….
  • You should want what God has for you, but if you are thinking like “normal” people do, then you are going to miss it.
  • Romans 12:2 (Message Bible)- Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out….
  • We need to fix our attention on GOD!!!
  • When you are “weird” you think about a couple of things differently…
  • You think about time, money, relationships, sex, and values not like all “normal” people do.
  • When you are “weird” you don’t live like normal people do…
  • 1 Peter 2:11 & 12- Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
  • If you claim to be a Christian which means to be “Christ-like” then you can easily see how we are to be “weird”
  • This world (Satan) is doing what they can to take out “normal” people and cause them to miss heaven
  • They are also doing what they can to reach the “weird” as well.

This is just something to think about… How do your friends view you? Are you “normal” or do they feel/know that there is something about you that is supernatural, unearthly, or uncanny? That’s what being “weird” is all about in a “God Way.” Be “weird” and walk in the life that God has called you to walk in. -Pastor Leo

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