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Christian Spiritual Formation Part 1 Teaching by:

Pastor Ken Baugh, M.Div

Te a c h i n g I l l u s t r a t i o n s

REVIEW

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CORE Components

a MATRIX for Christ Formation

NEUROLOGY PSYCHOLOGY THEOLOGY

a MATRIX for Christ Formation

The Means and Context for Transformation

Revelation

The Means and Context for Transformation

The

Means & Context for 
 Transformation

The Means and Context for Transformation

Relationships

The Means and Context for Transformation

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CATALYSTS

Holy Spirit

Effort

12 Month Curriculum

ELEMENTS for 
 Christ Formation SPECIAL REVELATION Introduction

B i b l i c a l & T h e o l o g i c a l F o u n d a t i o n s f o r Tr a n s f o r m a t i o n

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The Matrix for Christ Formation

Christian Spiritual Formation

Created in God’s Image

Spiritual Exercise for Transformation

The Cause and Effects of Sin

The Gospel and the Power of Grace

GENERAL REVELATION Neurology

Psychology

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Understanding the Heart

The Essential Nature of Relationships

Grace, Truth & 
 Time as Ingredients 
 for Growth

Renewing the Mind

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The role 21 Day of Thought Detox Scripture & Prayer & VIM Plan

CHRISTIAN Spiritual Formation

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GOD

C R E AT E D Human Beings for

R E L A T I O N S H I P

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26 & 27

GOD

C R E AT E D Human Beings to

R U L E & R E I G N O V E R C R E AT I O N “God

blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’ 29 Then God said, ‘I give you every seedbearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.’ And it was so.”

“GOD saw all that he had made, 
 and it was very good.” Genesis 1:28-31

GOD

C R E AT E D Human Beings to

R u l e

&

R e i g n

o v e r

C r e a t i o n

R U L E & R E I G N O V E R T H E N AT I O N S w i t h

C h r i s t

i n

t h e

N e w

H e a v e n

a n d

t h e

N e w

E a r t h

“If we endure, we will also reign with him.” 2 Timothy 2:12 “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:10 “But

you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9 “Do you not know that we will judge angels?” 1 Corinthians 6:3

“The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.” Revelation 22:3-5

N.T. WRIGHT

“Though many Christians in the Western world have imagined that the aim or goal of being a Christian is simply ‘to go to heaven when you die,” the New Testament holds out something much richer and more interesting. Yes, those who belong to Jesus in this life go to be with him once they die—that’s a promise made in various places in the New Testament. But that’s only the start of it. In the end—after most of us have had a time of rest and refreshment in the presence of Jesus himself—God has promised to give the entire world, the whole created order, a complete makeover. It will be renewed from top to bottom, so that it is filled at last with the presence and glory of God “as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9). And what will happen to us then? We will be given new bodies in which to live with delight and power in God’s new world. That, as I fully appreciate, is a much bigger and fuller picture of the ultimate future hope that many Christians have cherished, but it’s the one that the New Testament promises us.” -N.T. Wright: After You Believe, 31

N.T. WRIGHT

“. . . there are steps we can take which lead to this goal, to the resurrection life within the new creation, and which we can take here and now. And these steps are, quite literally, charactertransforming. The aim of the Christian life in the present time— the goal you are meant to be aiming at once you have come to faith, the goal which is within reach even in the present life, anticipating the final life to come—is the life of fully formed, fully flourishing Christian character.” -N.T. Wright: After You Believe, 32

GOD’S PLAN CREATION

FALL

Created in the image of God

TRIBULATION

ETERNAL STATE

MILLENNIUM

“…he has put eternity into man’s heart…” Ecclesiastes 3:11

Broken World

Not Christians

God’s People/Jews

HOLY Spirit

God with us

God in us

God’s Law

Perfect Life Death Atonement

Messiah will come

Resurrection

SIN

SIN

ONE People/Christians

Royal Priesthood

Wrath of God

SIN

Punishment for Israel’s rejection of Jesus as Messiah

SIN

Satan bound 1,000 year reign of Christ Believers rule and reign with Christ

R e l e a s e d

SIN

Not Christians

Satan ruling over creation

C o m i n g

Broken relationship 
 with each 
 other

Satan ruling over creation

C h u r c h

Perfect relationship 
 with each other

Satan ruling over creation

o f

Broken relationship 
 with God

Satan ruling over creation

S a t a n

Satan ruling over creation

Perfect relationship 
 with God

No Sin

CHURCH

S e c o n d

Perfect World

JESUS

R a p t u r e

Ruling over creation

ISRAEL

“‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
 plans to give you hope and a future.’” Jeremiah 29:11

Back

to

the

Garden

Satan vanquished New Jerusalem

Believers rule and reign with Christ in the NEW Heaven and Earth for all eternity.

I

h a v e

b e e n

SHAPED

SPIRITUALLY

by a

VARIETY of

ELEMENTS

of

ELEMENTS FORMATION

Shame Parents Culture Negative Experiences Positive Experiences

Before Christ

of

ELEMENTS FORMATION

After Christ

Shame Parents Spiritual

Culture Negative Experiences Positive Experiences

TRANSFORMATION P

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Image of Christ

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My

PARENTS have

SPIRITUALLY SHAPED

me

“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Deuteronomy 5:8-10

RESPONSABLE I

a m

r e s p o n s i b l e

f o r

m y

o w n

c h o i c e s

“Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. 
 20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father 
 suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, 
 and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.” Ezekiel 18:19-20

“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.”

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.”

Deuteronomy 24:16

2 Corinthians 5:10

My

CULTURE has

SPIRITUALLY SHAPED

me

“Do not love the world [STOP loving the world] or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.” 1 John 2:15-16 “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God…” James 4:4 “…keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2 “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. . .” Ephesians 2:1-2

My

EXPERIENCEShave

SPIRITUALLY SHAPED

me

HURT

POSITIVE

EXPERIENCES

N E G AT I V E

EXPERIENCES

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