At our morning services in October our series is looking at Money, Sex & Power.
3 October 2021 - 11am Service
Money, Sex & Power Series
This month, we’re taking time to look at how Money, Sex & Power can affect our lives.
You might be wondering, why these three? In the Bible, these ingredients are dealt with completely counter culturally by Jesus, yet His Church has a really bad track record with all three. However, money, sex and power can be great gifts for the blessing of others when surrendered to God.
You can go deeper with this topic on your own or in your small group using the discussion notes below.
DISCUSSION NOTES
In Job 31, Job gives a searching moral inventory where he declares his innocence from classic human weaknesses and sins, including the areas of abuse of money, sex and power.
Jesus of course spoke and demonstrated a life that was radically different in speaking of and handling money sex and power to the culture around him. He frequently shocked his disciples by his different approach to all three of those things.
Money, Sex and Power can corrupt religion, and become idols - powers that people give themselves to. How should we handle them today?
How would you define an ‘idol’? In Old Testament times idols were worshipped as alternatives to the God of Israel. What shape does idolatry have in our world today?
What is the link between Money Sex and Power? How does a pursuit of these things affect our relationship with God and other people?
How did Jesus model a different approach to these things? What did he teach?
What are the things we could celebrate about money, sex and power? Are they dangerous or wrong in themselves or are they simply neutral things that can be used or abused?
How should Christians live in relationship with money, sex and power? How can God be involved in those three?
Richard Foster wrote a book called Money, Sex and Power which might be helpful as a follow up read.