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SYMC2010 Friday Night Session Notes & Photos

I POSTED A FEW OF MY RANDOM PHOTOS FROM FRIDAY HERE.

Session 1 - PASSION - by Duffy Robbins

MY FAVORITE LINE OF THE WHOLE TALK: "Jesus doesn't need us to die for him, he needs us to LIVE for Him!!"

OPENER: "Memory Makers" - book by Doug and Duffy

1. * One of the ways God shapes our faith is by giving us a rich reservoir of memories.
2. * God uses these moments of surprising memory to speak to us (the bus broke down, etc.) 2 tim. 2 "you know the persecutions i've been through" - it's lists of memories.
3. * The odyssey of faith is marked by milestones of memories. (Legacy)
4. * Paul takes great pains to remind us of legacy Phil 2 (started in verse 5)

STORY: He told a story about a man who loved his wife faithfully! Even once his wife had Alzheimer's. She loved me so well that it was a privilege to be able to love her back." (he called it "Real-life passion".) He showed a video of a guy from Microsoft who "LOOOOVED his company/job". (He revealed at the end of his message as he was summing up the message that this guy was his dad. This was POWERFUL! HE SAID, "MY DAD WAS A MEMORY MAKER BECAUSE HE WAS PASSIONATE.")

1. * The images we see are only a fraction of real passion.
2. * Only in Christ can we see the legacy of authentic passion.

The legacy of Jesus Christ helps us understand "Holy Passion"!

The Legacy of Christ is IRRATIONAL!

1. * Real Holy Passion always looks a little bit IRRATIONAL.
2. * Phil 2:6 - "Who being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped..."
3. * Equality = Isosolese (Sp) Triangle like the triangle...(has two sides that are exactly the same...Jesus was absolutely equal to God.
4. * Doing student ministry is IRRATIONAL.
5. * He kept saying "it's not irrational it's PASSIONAL"

The Legacy of Christ is EXCESSIVE!

1. * There is something about passion that is EXCESSIVE!
2. * Phil 2:7 "...but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness."
3. * Jesus came in humility....in a manger...He emptied himself!
4. * what would it look like if our student generation would live out an excessive passion to Christ!

The Legacy of Christ is COSTLY!

1. * We have to understand this...passion is costly.
2. * Love something enough to suffer for it!
3. * Phil 2:8 "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross!"
4. * We can't forget that genuine passion is costly.
5. * For most of us passion won't play itself out in death...but it might play itself out in the way we live our lives.
6. * Jesus doesn't need us to die for him, he needs us to LIVE for Him!! (One of my favorite lines in the whole talk!)
7. * Enduring the real present suffering that comes with life. (Ex. Parents who don't seems to really appreciate us, etc.)
8. * They pursued passion ("press on to take hold of that which Christ pursued")

This passion is ours by the legacy of Christ IN US.

1. * God is at work in you.

I PUT SOME PHOTOS HERE!