This is Session 1 of our new series on "A Jesus Looking Church" and Brian teaches on what it means to really love our enemies.

2. A JESUS LOOKING
LIFESTYLE

4. The German Army Occupies Rome
following the Italian Armistice in 1943

5. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty begins to
help former prisoners of war
using the neutral status of the Vatican
as an operational base

6. O’Flaherty gains covert support
from the Vatican diplomats

7. A team is formed to organize the
expanding secret operation

8. Many wealthy business people of
Rome became supporters

9. O’Flaherty’s work comes to the
attention of the German Security
Forces in Rome
Especially to its commanding officer,
Colonel Herbert Kappler

10. One of the priests is captured helping
the resistance and is shot

11. Himmler puts pressure on Kappler
to break O’Flaherty’s operation

12. Pope Pius XII informs O’Flaherty of a
rumoured invasion of the Vatican
And warns that it must not be provoked

13. O’Flaherty continues the work and
uses disguises to avoid capture

14. Kappler becomes obsessed with
O’Flaherty’s capture

15. O’Flaherty finds new ways to slip
through the blockade

16. O’Flaherty dresses as a German
Officer to visit another priest in prison

17. With the Allied forces about to
enter Rome, Kappler’s attention
is turned to finding a way for
his wife and children to get
safely out of the city.
He forces O’Flaherty
to a secret meeting.

19. Colonel Kappler was arrested
and interrogated by the Allied
forces
and makes a
surprise discovery

24. Pope Pius commends O’Flaherty
for the work of protecting
6,000+ people from more than
25 different nations
But the movie script has him
observing a sad reflection on
the failure of the church to
represent genuine Christian
experience

26. Everyone is supposed to get this
from the same place as Hugh
O’Flaherty got it

27. Ma#hew
5
43 “You
have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love
your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to
you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your
Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise
on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who
love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the
tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only
your brothers, what more are you doing than others?
Do not even the Gentiles do the same?48 You
therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is
perfect.

28. JUST TELL ME EVERYTHING IT SAYS
1. The
religious
deal
of
knowing
who
to
love
and
who
to
hate
(ignore
èdespise)
is
a
human
idea
that
has
nothing
to
do
with
God.
2. The
kingdom
way
is
to
be
acBvely
loving
your
enemies
and
prayerfully
redempBve.
3. This
is
what
God
is
like,
and
when
you
live
the
“God”
kind
of
life
other
people
can
experience
the
presence
of
God
through
you.
4. The
“reward”
for
God’s
people
is
that
enemies
get
to
experience
God
and
get
a
chance
at
redempBon
as
a
result.

29. JUST TELL ME EVERYTHING IT SAYS
5. They
get
to
see
the
difference
between
‘ordinary
human’
and
‘God.’
6. The
calling
of
God’s
people
is
to
be
people
who
bring
the
presence
of
God
into
a
given
human
situaBon
that
needs
to
be
redeemed.

30. IF NOT WHY NOT?
What you can do to see transformation
1. I
believe
that
the
revelaBon
from
Jesus
is
the
way
God
has
created
me
and
intends
me
to
live.
2. I’m
going
to
see
how
Jesus
did
it
(gospels)
3. I’m
going
to
go
to
God
for
what
I
need
(harp
and
sword
prayer)
4. I’m
not
going
to
accept
any
result
other
than
the
one
God
works
in
me
(“My
help
comes
from
the
Lord
who
made
heaven
and
earth”
Ps.
121)
5. I
am
going
to
make
myself
accountable
in
this
to
my
team
(tell
a
few
people
I
share
life
with).