New Sunday Teaching Series starting term 4 (2nd October 2022) at Diamond Valley Baptist Church!This will also be live-streamed, so people can watch later or re-watch as part of a small group discussion
When Peter (1 Pet. 3:15-16) instructs his readers on their mission, he doesn’t insist that they need to be red-hot evangelists. He implies that because of how they are living their lives, those around them will be bursting with questions. And when the questions come, that’s when a gentle explanation can be made.
Michael Frost, an Australian missiologist and writer puts it that we need to ‘Surprise the world’ by living lives that raise questions -- questionable lives. Our life-practices should attract questions. This is the Sunday teaching series at Diamond Valley Baptist Church for term: 4 2022.
Download a summary PDF of ‘Surprise the World’ by Mike Frost here
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Buy a copy of "Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People" by Michael Frost (2015, here
Download Connect Group Discussion notes here
Watch an Intro by Mike Frost here
Babylon was the centre of learning, commerce, wealth, and religion. Devoted to materialism, extravagance, luxury, and the pursuit of pleasure, it was a privileged society.
But, there was also injustice, poverty, and cruel oppression. It was the great and ancient capital city, the the centre of the universe.
And there, young Daniel and his friends found themselves. Shell-shocked exiles, reeling from the defeat of Yahweh’s people by the ruthless dictator, Nebuchadnezzar. How would they learn to live ‘another way’ so far from the land of their faith, in a powerful, seductive pagan world?
And here we find ourselves in Western society. Consumer capitalism, a never-ending cycle of working and buying, a sea of choices produced with little regard to life or resources, societal violence, marginalised and excluded people, a world headed toward climactic calamity.
How do we live ‘another way’ in the midst of an all-pervasive empire?
We’re going to look over Daniels’ shoulders and learn what the bible teaches us about living with integrity God’s way far from the safety of of a Christendom world that has long vanished?
Come join us Sundays either 9:30am or 6:00pm Sunday evenings at Diamond Valley Baptist Church. There is usually a free meal Sunday 5:30pm before we gather - you're welcome to join us at table!
