Team Jesus

It is time to transform culture through authentic Christianity!

Summary

Culture is created by the values, character, faith and of people.  It is cultivated over time and is an expression of who we are.  The only culture of freedom and life is Christian culture.  America was founded on Christian culture, but many have been cultivating a culture of death and immorality in its place.  It is time that we till up the ground and once again cultivate a culture of life and liberty through faith in Jesus, a vision from His word and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Outline

1. God wants to build a family – that is what church is.
   1. Every family, nature and society has a culture.
   2. Cult – means to till the soil – to prepare for a habitation.
   3. Cult -URE means to apply with force.  A culture is something that has force behind it. 
   4. The quality in a society that develops from a love of what is good and important.
   5. When you study and pray and hang out with like-minded people you are developing a culture.
2. A culture takes a time to cultivate and to achieve.
   1. Some have been working hard to turn this nation away from God.
   2. There has been a turning to hedonism, heathenism and idolatry.
   3. America has its flaws, but it is the greatest country in history.
   4. America has been replacing morality with immorality.
   5. Culture is preparing something for habitation
   6. We need to prepare ourselves for God’s habitation through faith, prayer, God’s word and the means that He has provided.
   7. A culture is something that has force and persistence behind it.
   8. Culture gives us a concern for what is excellent.
   9. A culture takes time to develop and achieve.
   10. Many are trying to turn American culture away from Christ.
3. Tom Landry – icon – champions
   1. A Tom Landry culture – “what is the difference between the culture of Tom Landry and today?
   2. People still remember Tom Landry’s teachings.
   3. Sometimes Landry had to cut people from the team – nobody ever gets cut from God’s team.
   4. The main difference can be understood from the example of Canadian geese.
   5. Geese take turns being in the lead.
   6. If one gets hurt, another will follow them to the ground to see if they can get them back up.
   7. Why do they honk?  They are encouraging one another.
   8. Geese use a buddy system.
4. We are on a march for God and we need one another and to encourage one another.
   1. We need one another and need to encourage one another
   2. This is why prayer is imperative.
   3. We need to be revived and keep from becoming jaded.
   4. We are headed to a celestial city.
   5. During this life there will be difficulties, trials, heartaches, troubles, etc. but our God delivers us from them all. – God delivers us from all of our troubles.
5. The Christian culture.
   1. Every culture has something that identifies itself.
   2. There is a drug culture, a sex culture, etc.
   3. The Christian culture is identified by Jesus and is a light set on a hill.
   4. Christians are living epistles who are read by all men.
   5. Jesus is the head of our culture and governs it as a family.
   6. His culture is ruled by characteristics such as love, holiness, humility, service, honor, integrity, giving, forgiving, mercy, grace, steadfastness, etc.
   7. CHRISTIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO THE WORLD.
   8. We are meant to be changing to become more like Jesus.
   9. The term atheist was first applied to Christians, because they refused to worship the gods of Rome.
   10. There are all kinds of false gods we are worshipping in America today.
6. We need to get the culture of America turned around with prayer and action.
   1. Many churches are no different than the world and have no power to transform culture.
   2. We need to develop an authentically Christian culture.
   3. Many churches are no different than the world – we need to be known by our fruit.
   4. The two traits of Christians are giving and forgiving.
   5. We need to bear fruit by cultivating our heart to receive God’s word.
   6. We need to study God’s word to see what Christian culture is meant to be.
   7. When the Bereans wanted to see if what Paul was preaching was true they searched it out in the Torah.
   8. The way we bear fruit is through being filled with the Holy Spirit.
   9. We need to bear each other’s burdens.
   10. Whatever we sow, we will reap, either from the flesh or the Spirit.
7. When we cultivate our hearts for God, we will bear good fruit.