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    COUPLES FOR CHRIST - Sydney, Australia

    FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING

    TALK No. 5 : OVERCOMING THE WORLD

    Participant’s Handout

    A. Introduction.

    1. Many people today, including Christians, are in bondage. To depression, loneliness,


    anger, frustration, to sex, alcohol, drugs and to fears.
    2. The sources of problems are fourfold: the world, our flesh, the devil, and our
    personal wrongdoing.

    B. The problem: the world.

    1. What is "the world"?


    * The "world" mentioned in 1 John is a system of relationships, ideas and values
    opposed to the kingdom of God. This "world" is the Christian's enemy. It is
    society and culture separated from God and locked into patterns controlled by
    the forces of darkness.

    2. Areas of this worldly system.


    a) Personal relationships – competition, mistrust, resentment, manipulation.
    b) Worldly ideas - philosophical, psychological theories such as existentialism
    and humanistic psychology view man as a completely independent unit, sovereign in
    himself, with no goals other that self-realization and the exercise of freedom.
    c) Worldly values.
    * Materialism (money and possessions), hedonism (pleasure), thirst for power
    and prestige (domination); Corrupt forms of independence and
    competitiveness.

    3. Where is "the world"?


    a) The world and the kingdom of God exist side by side in the same physical
    environment.
    b) Thus we must be able to discern the presence of worldly relationships, ideas and
    values in our day-to-day lives.
    c) Effect of the world on Christians.
    * We pick up from the world many values, ideas and ways of relating which
    come from non-Christian sources and which hinder our growth in the
    Christian life.
    * Only a truly Christian environment can reshape our worldly patterns of
    relating, thinking and valuing.

    C. The solution: Christian community.

    1. What is it?
    a) A Christian community, such as ours in CFC, is a group of people who openly
    proclaim the lordship of Jesus and declare their love of God by sharing their
    lives with other Christians.
    b) Members of a Christian community gather together in order to live an explicitly
    Christian life operating by the patterns of relationships, values and ideas of the
    kingdom of God.
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    c) The Christian community is God's family.

    2. Means of personal growth in CFC.


    a) Teaching – CFC’s various courses (CLP, CO, MER, ET, SG, FCL, CE,
    CPR, FS, LPG, etc.)
    b) Personal relationships.
    * Receiving God's love through other Christians is one of the most effective
    means of healing and change in the Christian life.
    c) Pastoral guidance.

    D. Christian community: the light of the world.

    1. In CFC we can become free from bondage to the world. But CFC has another
    purpose, ultimately more central to God's plan of salvation.
    a) Jn 17:15-16. Jesus wants us to be in the world still, though not of the world.
    b) CFC has two purposes: 1- to free men from their bondage to the world, and also
    2- to be a source of life for the world.

    2. Thus a Christian community does not stand isolated from the world, but instead
    stands in the world as a visible, tangible witness to the love of God.

    a) Expressed in love and unity among our members, in service to others, and in our
    work of evangelization and renewal.

    b) We in CFC are to love the world but combat its ways. We are to help liberate
    men from worldly bondage but call on them to return to serve in the world.

    E. Conclusion.

    1. If you want to become a new person, commit yourself to our Christian community,
    to your covenant, to the life and mission of CFC. Make these your priority.

    2. Jesus wants to free us from bondages. We can grow in a new life in the Spirit. CFC
    is our help and God's gift to us.

    **** end of talk *****

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