Becoming a Cruciform community | Pastor Scott Lackey

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But when I saw that they weren’t walking straight down the line of gospel truth, I said to Cephas in front of them all: “Look here: you’re a Jew, but you’ve been living like a Gentile. How can you force Gentiles to become Jews?” - Galatians 2:14 (NTFE)
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Create Space to participate in the Cruciform community
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Cruciformity: Participating in the process of death and resurrection with Christ; this participation forms human beings into the likeness of Christ.
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The Cross must shape our Christian community
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15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. - Galatians 2:15-16
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“Justification, then, is about reconciliation with God and membership in God’s covenant community.” - Dr. Michael Gorman
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17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not! 18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. - Galatians 2:17-18
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Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” - Luke 24:44
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Justification is participation (co-crucifixion)
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19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:19-20
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“Paul now tells the story of the Messiah’s death and resurrection as his own story.” - N.T. Wright
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I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! - Galatians 2:21