What are the Rules for Light on your

Feet?#813 July 5, 2015Quincenera Year

Last Week

“Is the Quincenera girl Light on her Feet?

Mission: Making Followers of Christ for LifeVision: Glowing, Going and Growing

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GoLiving Faith, Be a Light FORE! Lost Souls

Q u i n c e n e r a

• quin·ce·a·ñe·ra kinsā-ənˈye(ə)rə/• (in Latin America and among Latinos) a

celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday and her transition from childhood to adulthood, typically involving a mass followed by a party.

• "weddings, baptisms, quinceañeras, birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays are all celebrations that bring families together"

C h e e r s !

• “I dream of a church where everybody knows your name and everybody’s glad you came and nobody leaves the same.”

-Pastor Maria

Rules for Being LIGHT on your FEET

• win·some ˈwinsəm/ adjective Attractive or appealing in appearance or character.

• The word winsome comes from the Old English wynn which means pleasure and delight. The word sometimes carries with it a feeling of childlike joy or innocence that is attractive or pleasing to others. There is nothing hiding behind a winsome smile. It wins over others in a fresh and honest way.

Winsome to win some!

• Living Faith in La Mirada: I dream of a church that is winsome in her faith in Christ to win some to her faith in Christ!

Isaiah 51 “Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the

sound of singing. Listen to me, my people; hear me my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations… (51:11)The ransomed/winsomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

New Rules for Social EngagementKinneman/Lyons UnChristian

• Curious• Courageous• Compassion

Let’s see what Prophet Isaiah says

• Prophet “Boiling up like a fountain”• Isaiah “Salvation of the LORD”• The Book of Isaiah: Judgment and Hope

AN ANTHOLOGY OF LATER ISAIAH: C U R I O S I T Y C O U R A G E C A R I N G

Confident C U R I O S I T Y (not Oprah’s potpourri of spirituality)

“God sooooo loves His world/cosmos” • God’s world doesn’t have “cudies.”• Isaiah 52:12-15 “…the LORD will go

before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard…so He will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of Him.”

Confidence in the cost of salvation

• Psalm 53 Suffering Servant• 54:16 “See, it is I who created the

blacksmith who fans the coast into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created th destroyer to work havoc…”

• Curiosity is inquiry and interest.

Curious Christ makes Confident Christians

• Luke 15 “Friend of Sinners”• Luke 19 “Zacchaeus come down

immediately. I must stay at your house today…the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”

• Isaiah 55:6-13 READ

Courage

• “Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.” Isaiah 54:4

• Isaiah 54:17 “no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declared the LORD

Awake! Awake!

• “Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city.” 52:1

• Lyons at Stanford University• Gina V. at work• Pastor Steve at Temple Beth Ohr• Pastor Jack in the Nation’s Capitol

Caring

• Isaiah 55:1“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”

Our spirituality should be sympathetic

• “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?” 58:6-7 (Greenpeace and PETA!)

Isaiah 61/Luke 4

• “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor…”

Rules: Curious Courage Care

• Isaiah 60 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rise upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and His glory appears over you.”