The Cross of Christ - Big Family 

Take a few minutes to catch up, tell stories, and laugh together. Trust and friendship take time to build. If you’re launching a new DNA, one person should tell their story — what do we need to know about you? Next week, have another person in your DNA share their story.

Pastor Brian asked us to consider 4 documents that we need to review as we commit to following Jesus. When we take up our cross to follow Jesus we declare that the cross will be central to our lives. Often in those early days, it is easy to keep Him in the center, but as we grow distant from that initial encounter we get caught up in our lives here on earth and the cross silently slips into the corners of our life.

Where is the cross in your life?
Is it central? Has it drifted into a corner? 

Let’s review the documents Brian discussed and how they might help us bring the cross back to its central place in our lives… 

1. Permission to Operate

“The gospel is not a haircut it’s a heart transplant” Trying to live your new life on the strength of your old heart is discouraging and ultimately impossible but Jesus wants to put His heart and His strength in you… 
Will you trust the surgeon?

2. Adoption Decree
 God has demonstrated the commitment to adopt you as His child.
 Are you stuck because you haven’t allowed Him to play this Fatherly role in your life? Will you let Him bring you into His family and live as if He is your Father?

3. Terms of Surrender
God loves us so much that He sacrificed His son. He loves us too much to allow us to set harmful conditions on our surrender that will keep us from healing and salvation.
Have you fully surrendered to Jesus? Or are you operating under a conditional surrender, dictating terms to Jesus that He has not offered?

4. Housing Agreement
God’s end game has always been nearness, to be with us and within us. To sit at His table and eat with us.
Have you allowed Him to move in? Are you ready for Him to move in? 

Take time to pray with and for each other.