13. SINNERS NEED SINNERS
TWO BASIC
PRINCIPLES
THAT CAN EBCLA
CHANGE
YOUR LIFE
I AM IMPERFECT AND WIRED FOR STRUGGLE
BUT WORTH LOVING AND BELONGING
14. SINNERS NEED SINNERS
1
WE ADMITTED THAT WE ARE POWERLESS OVER
SIN, THAT OUR LIVES HAD BECOME
UNMANAGEABLE.
Admi!ing
I AM IMPERFECT AND WIRED FOR STRUGGLE
BUT WORTH LOVING AND BELONGING
15. SINNERS NEED SINNERS
2
CAME TO BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS GREATER
THAN OURSELVES, COULD RESTORE US TO SANITY
AND HARMONY.
Admi!ing
I AM IMPERFECT AND WIRED FOR STRUGGLE
BUT WORTH LOVING AND BELONGING
16. SINNERS NEED SINNERS
3
MADE A DECISION TO TURN OUR WILLS AND OUR
LIVES OVER TO THE CARE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR
JESUS CHRIST.
Admi!ing
I AM IMPERFECT AND WIRED FOR STRUGGLE
BUT WORTH LOVING AND BELONGING
17. PROVERBS 3 5 Trust in
the Lord with all your heart.
Do not depend on your own
understanding.
6 In all your ways
remember him.
Then he will make your
paths smooth and straight.
18. At the start, trusting
God completely was
easy-peasy.
GENESIS 2 15 The Lord God put the man in
the Garden of Eden. He put him there to work
its ground and to take care of it.
16 The Lord God gave the man a command. He
said, “You can eat the fruit of any tree that is in
the garden. 17 But you must not eat the fruit of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If
you do, you can be sure that you will die.”
Designed for Good
19. At the start, trusting
God completely was
easy-peasy.
GENESIS 2 15 The Lord God put the man in
the Garden of Eden. He put him there to work
its ground and to take care of it.
16 The Lord God gave the man a command. He
said, “You can eat the fruit of any tree that is in
the garden. 17 But you must not eat the fruit of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If
you do, you can be sure that you will die.”
Designed for Good
20. But when humans began
trusting themselves more
than God, it got ugly fast.
GENESIS 3 22 The Lord God said, “The man has
become like one of us. He can now tell the difference
between good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach
out his hand and pick fruit from the tree of life and eat it. If
he does, he will live forever.” 23 So the Lord God drove
the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he
had been made out of. 24 The Lord God drove him out
and then placed cherubim on the east side of the Garden
of Eden. He also placed a flaming sword there. It flashed
back and forth. The cherubim and the sword guarded the
Damaged by Evil
way to the tree of life.
21. Jesus came and died to
prove that we could trust
God completely again.
1 JOHN 4 7 Dear friends, let us love one another,
because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born again because of what God has done. That
person knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does
not know God, because God is love. 9 How did God
show his love for us? He sent his one and only Son
into the world. He sent him so we could receive life
through him. 10 What is love? It is not that we loved
God. It is that he loved us and sent his Son to give his
life to pay for our sins.
Restored for Better
22. The Heroes’ Journey will
test our ability to trust
God more and more.
1 John 4 14 The Father has sent his Son to be the
Savior of the world. We have seen it. We give witness to
it. 15 God lives in anyone who agrees that Jesus is the
Son of God. That kind of person remains joined to God.
16 So we know that God loves us. We depend on it.
God is love. Anyone who leads a life of love shows
that he is joined to God. And God is joined to him.
17 So love is made complete among us. We will be bold
on the day God judges us. That’s because in this
world we love as Jesus did.
Sent Together to Heal
23. ISAIAH 40 27 Family of Jacob, He won’t become worn out or
why do you say, “The Lord get tired. No one will ever
doesn’t notice our condition”? know how great his
People of Israel, why do you understanding is.
say, “Our God doesn’t pay any 29 He gives strength to those
attention to our rightful claims”? who are tired. He gives power
28 Don’t you know who made to those who are weak.
everything? Haven’t you heard 30 Even young people become
about him? The Lord is the worn out and get tired. Even the
God who lives forever. He best of them trip and fall.
created everything on earth.
24. Wait
31 But those who trust in the Lord
will receive new strength.
They will fly as high as eagles.
They will run and not get tired.
They will walk and not grow weak.
25. Back to the Beginning?
Early Christian gatherings were probably
more like A.A. meetings today than what most
of us think of when it comes to worship
services and Bible studies.
26. Back to the Beginning?
Early Christian gatherings were probably
more like A.A. meetings today than what most
of us think of when it comes to worship
services and Bible studies.
Maybe the more we know God, the more we
will experience Christ’s love, the more we will
be able to trust God.
That’s probably when our gatherings will
naturally begin to revolve around admitting,
submitting, reconciling and infecting.
