Why did Jesus command his disciples to carry nothing on their journey? To create the optimal conditions for deep interactions.

[Luke 9:1-6]

When everyone expected God to enter through the front door, Jesus came onto the pages of history through the back door.

If we want to invite God into our future, we must invite Him into our lives today. Mary experienced this, and as a result, the world became saturated with God.

God wants us to invite Him into our power. We all have power that can be used for good or evil. Our desire to control others needs to be surrendered to Jesus.

It takes guts to invite people into your life. God has been inviting us into His life, so let's invite Him into ours this season! Let's invite Him into our regrets and mistakes.

Question and Response

One of the biggest barriers to belief in God is that we don't want to believe. Our will is so powerful that we can will God out of existence. Brutal honesty is needed.

What made Jesus irresistible and why is His church so unappealing today? Perhaps we missed the core of Jesus' teachings - to love others as He loved us.

God is always loving, but our capacity to accept His love is not always available. We all need to seek, ask, and trust God to unblock the channels in which God loves us.

Now that we know who God is not, it's time to lay the basic foundation of who God is. How did the Ancient Jews decide who God is? How should we decipher God's identity?