~What is God Like? "In a good many people's minds: something that interferes, that stops you from having a good time."
"the instructor who keeps saying no, not like that"
~The Human Machine
1. When human individual drifts apart from one another, or collide into each other (cheating/bullying)
2. When things go wrong inside the individual (internal conflict)
Important Question?
~Morality
1. Fair Play & Harmony (w/ individuals)
2. Personal Assessment (tidying up)
3. What is Our Purpose (made for)
~What question sets us apart?
Mere Christianity pgs. 99 & 100 (72&73)
-Sometimes we really do need a day off, even when we think we don't. (Sabbath Day)
-Every fight that happens, goes to a level of selfishness
-We need to always have courage in order to do things
*Nice or Honest??
-weight/apperance
-advice (Proverbs 9)
-lifestyle
*God is our LANDLORD
-he is responsible to me, i'm responsible to him
*Being a worthy Christian is so important!!!
people/things
we need to value the people more than other things.
*Some of the most valuable things in life can't be bought.
~Cardinal Virtues...
*prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
~Key Hinge (cardinal)
-Prudence (common sense) taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it. A child's heart & an adult's head/ Faith like a child/ harmless as doves, wise as serpents
-Tempeance (abstinence) going the right length and no furter. One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing w/o wanting everyone else to give it up.
-Justice (fairness) honesty, give & take, truthfulness, keeping promises.
-Fortitude (guts) two types of courage: the kind that faces danger & sticks it out during pain. You cannot practice any virtue unless you have courage
~Broken Hinges (cardinal)
*The truth that right actions done for the wrong reasons (or vice versa) do not help, to build the internal quality or character called a virtue.
*To think that God wanted simply obediene to set of rules/ meaning he wants a certain type of person.
*Virtues only necessary only for this present life, the point is that if people have not gat at least the beginnings of those qualities (i.e. character) inside them, then no possible external conditions could make a 'Heaven' for them.
(not just how it affects me now but in the whole scheme of things)
~Social morality:
*the movie Social Network - finding your place in life. Sometimes people create things to be social because we aren't social...then we have to much pride
(our worth is not in facebook or blinking lights)
~A Few Things (social)
"Do As you would be done by."
*First Thing: Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality
*Second Thing: Christianity has not and does not profess to have, a detailed political program for applying, to a particular society at a particular moment.
**Christianity is not a political machine**
*Third Thing: Cheerful society: full of singing, rejoicing and regarding worry or anxiety as wrong. NT hates busybodies
**As Christians, there doesn't have to be an acting fake being happy at work. We need to work on a level of no matter how things get, stay as positive as can be**
*Fourth Thing: *Charging interest
**Even when you are in fault, don't bring up the other person's faults**
*Fifth Thing: Charity- giving to the poor. Insecurity is the greatest of fear of why we do not give.
**We need to learn to trust in what to help out with**
Gabe Lyons:
"The Next Christians" How a New Generation is Restoring Their Faith
What's Wrong With Today's Christians = youtube video
~Morality Psychoanalysis (choices)
*We make many choices every day that shape us.
*A million little choices
~Choices
*Moral Choice: Two Parts
1. The Act of Choosing
2. Raw Material of Choice (i.e. feelings, impulses the root)
*Another Example:
Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less" Monty Python And The Holy Grail - The Black Knight scene
**The fact is, when things aren't alright, we say we are but really aren't. We need to fix and sympothize in that. Be there and address those things for other people even when you don't need it. Help tidy up someones feelings though you want to do your own thing. We go together or we go alone**
**Ask God for help when you need/want it**Don't be selfish.**We are to humble ourselves and help those around us out**
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
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