Reading: Some Final Curious Questions - Slides

Restoring Relationships
Transforming Justice

Lecture 24

Some Final Curious Questions

Your Conflict Story

Shallow wildfire stories and retributive justice that tries to label you for the rest of your life is not God’s destiny for you.

Your Conflict Story

God has a history of taking people from prisons and transforming them into His ambassadors of reconciliation.

Your Conflict Story

Jesus Christ knows what it is like to be labeled as an offender.

Your Conflict Story

Jesus Christ knows what it is like to be labeled as an offender.

He knows what it is like to suffer as a victim.

Your Conflict Story

Jesus Christ knows what it is like to be labeled as an offender.

He knows what it is like to suffer as a victim.

But Jesus Christ is not defined by those labels.

Your Conflict Story

He is now the greatest in the heavenly kingdom and will one day return to rule and reign on this earth.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was a man who knew what it was like to suffer unjustly.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was a man who knew what it was like to suffer unjustly.

His brothers sold him into slavery.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was a man who knew what it was like to suffer unjustly.

His brothers sold him into slavery.

He became a servant in Potiphar’s household.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was a man who knew what it was like to suffer unjustly.

His brothers sold him into slavery.

He became a servant in Potiphar’s household.

He rose to a position of trust with Potiphar.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was a man who knew what it was like to suffer unjustly.

His brothers sold him into slavery.

He became a servant in Potiphar’s household.

He rose to a position of trust with Potiphar.

Potiphar’s wife falsely accused Joseph of sexual misconduct.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was labeled and thrown into prison.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was labeled and thrown into prison.

In prison, he served well and found favor with the jailor.

Your Conflict Story

Joseph was labeled and thrown into prison.

In prison, he served well and found favor with the jailor.

Through God’s miraculous plan, Joseph was delivered from prison and became the second most powerful man in all of Egypt.

Your Conflict Story

But Joseph’s conflict story wasn’t over.

Your Conflict Story

But Joseph’s conflict story wasn’t over.

Just like your conflict story isn’t over.

Your Conflict Story

One day, Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy grain because there was a famine.

Your Conflict Story

One day, Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy grain because there was a famine.

Joseph recognized them, but they did not recognize him.

Your Conflict Story

Eventually, Joseph disclosed his identity to his brothers and they feared for their lives.

Your Conflict Story

Eventually, Joseph disclosed his identity to his brothers and they feared for their lives.

They thought Joseph would take revenge for what they did to him.

Your Conflict Story

But Joseph was not focused on the wildfire of conflict that attracted his brothers’ attention.

Your Conflict Story

But Joseph was not focused on the wildfire of conflict that attracted his brothers’ attention.

Here’s what Joseph said to his brothers:

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:20

Your Conflict Story

Can you say that about your conflict story?

Your Conflict Story

Can you say that about your conflict story?

Have you asked God for the humility that he offers you in Jesus Christ?

Your Conflict Story

Can you say that about your conflict story?

Have you asked God for the humility that he offers you in Jesus Christ?

Have you asked Him to give you the desire to please Him?

Your Conflict Story

Can you say that about your conflict story?

Have you asked God for the humility that he offers you in Jesus Christ?

Have you asked Him to give you the desire to please Him?

Have you asked Him to give you the faith that it takes to please Him?

Your Conflict Story

Can you say that about your conflict story?

Have you asked God for the humility that he offers you in Jesus Christ?

Have you asked Him to give you the desire to please Him?

Have you asked Him to give you the faith that it takes to please Him?

Have you asked Him to fill you with His love for the people in your conflict story?

Your Conflict Story

If you have, the Lord is going to make you an ambassador of reconciliation – a man or woman He can use in the midst of conflict to accomplish His purpose of restored relationships and transformed justice.

Your Conflict Story

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Lecture 24

Shallow wildfire stories and shallow justice will attempt to define you and label you according to your past offenses. 

Following Jesus Christ gives you a future that is not limited by your past. 

What the adversary intends for evil in your life, God can turn for good. 

Lecture 24

God has a history of taking men who come out of shallow justice and using them as a source of blessing to others.

Followers of Jesus are called to be ambassadors of reconciliation wherever they go.