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RADICAL DEVOTION

Key Points & Quotes

Speaker: Pastor Rick Warren

Date: 2-9-2010

Radicalis-Session 1

Latin: Radicalis = from the root

“Radical” MEANS ROOTED

Root Examples:

Eradicate – comes from the ROOT – get rid of the ROOT issue

Radical in math is the ROOT number

Radical is the ROOT in grammar

Consonants of 2 or 3 in linguistics are RADICAL

Free RADICAL is 2 electrons, 1 proton – smallest ROOT amount

Col. 2:6-7 ⁶So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, ⁷rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Eph. 3:17-19 ¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Matt. 13:21 ²¹But they don't have deep roots, and they don't last very long. As soon as life gets hard or the message gets them in trouble, they give up.

Jer. 17:7-8 ⁷”Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD. "For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

4 Results of Deep Roots Found in Jeremiah:

1)      Not bothered by the heat – can handle the pressure

2)      Not worried by the drought – things that dry up I your life

3)      Leaves stay green

4)      Keep on producing fruit

2 Visible Symptoms of Rootlessness (Why people aren’t Christian):

1)      Most people are lethargic

2)      Most people don’t want what we offer, because we come off like

a.       Christians are boring

b.      Christians are just anti-homosexual

c.       Christians are just political

One-Liners from Rick during Talk:
     ·           What I am in private determines who I lead in public

·           No ROOTS, no fruit

·           When you have roots you can be like Saddleback – go down deep & last 30 years

·           20 years ago Rick said “The issue is church health, not church growth”

·           Every single problem in my life comes from me not being ROOTED in God’s love

·           We don’t get credit for starting the race – we get credit for ending it well

o       The only way to end well is to build ROOTS Eph. 3:17-19

·           Don’t have to be a superstar to build a super church

·           Someone with shallow roots will whither when the heats on

·           Our goal as Pastor’s is to help move people from “Come & See” (lowest level of commitment) to “Come & Die” (highest level of commitment)

·           Radical devotion = Love God

·           Radical compassion = Love people

·           Radical missions = Reach the nation

·           Radical generosity = Give

·           People are looking for an authoritative message through a humble person

·           What is it I’m not getting in my life because I haven’t asked God?

·           No such thing as Christian music, only Christian lyrics – music speaks more about the culture than it does about theology – God likes all kinds of music, it just has to be done in Spirit and in Truth

·           Worship is Radical devotion

·           No on will ever love me more than God does – no one

·           God isn’t mad at me, He’s mad about me!

o       So my worship doesn’t come out of duty, but out of delight!

·          What happens in marriages is that men and women fall out of love with their mates because they stopped doing what they did in the beginning – Like the church in Rev. 2:2-5, they forsake their first love

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