THE WOKE CHURCH THE GOSPEL SESSION 5 Identity

THE WOKE CHURCH THE GOSPEL SESSION 5 Identity theft is a crime Jim… A Well Church Production vs

What is love? And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. - Apostle Paul SESSION 1 Everything! 1 Cor 13: 2 ESV

Where are we going? Session 1: What is the Woke Church? Session 5: Identity theft is a crime Jim Session 2: Building a worldview - 1 new definition at a time. Session 6: The Gospel and Social Justice: A Contrast Session 3: BLM vs BLM Session 7: The Great Divide, Time to Decide? Session 4: Are you “woke” on Sundays? Session 8: Recap – TL; DR version SESSION 1

What have we seen about who we are in Social Justice?

I’m going to show you just how much you lose when your identity is not in Christ.

Oppressor vs Oppressed Scripture Verses: _____

New Creation? Same Old Sinner!

SAME OLD SINNER Scripture: ______

New Creation in Christ Scripture: 2 Cor 5: 17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (ESV)

WOKE: NEW CREATION BIBLE: NEW CREATION

Covenantal Ownership

WOKE: state of penance Bible: TETELESTAI, “IT IS FINISHED”

WOKE: PEACE BIBLE: PEACE

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. (John 14: 27 ESV)

WOKE: PEACE BIBLE: PEACE

WOKE: Jesus Christ BIBLE: Jesus Christ

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2: 5 ESV)

WOKE: Personal Savior BIBLE: Jesus Christ

WOKE: Forgive not once BIBLE: 70 x 7*

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2: 5 ESV)

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4: 32 ESV)

WOKE: Forgive not once BIBLE: 70 x 7*

Alive in Christ? Or woke?

It is very easy for white people to “not drag color” into the sacraments. Blacks in the American experience do not have that luxury or privilege. Colorblind theology denies the reality Of what this sacrament means for POC. We must “drag color” into the means of grace. It’s survival. - Dr. Anthony Bradley - Twitter 5/12/2017

What have you lost if you are woke? New Creation Peace Forgiveness It is Finished Personal Savior Identity in Christ

“In Christ” Used 97 times in the New Testament. 3. 5 times per book avg.

Romans 6: 11 So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ.

1 Cor 1: 30 And Because of Him you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Romans 12: 5. . so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

Gal 3: 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

Gal 3: 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Col 3: 1 -3 If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

“The current Social Justice movement can only have traction amongst people who do not live the daily reality of recognizing that the day of judgment is coming and God’s going to make all things right, not in this life. ” Dr. James White

Romans 5: 1 Therefore since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2: 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possessions, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Closing thoughts. & Questions