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Lesson 3 Commitment To Christ
Lesson 3 Commitment To Christ
commitment
to Christ
Lesson 3
Introduction
On the Christmas Eve, 1224,
St. Francis of Assisi gave his
friends at Greccio, a great
surprise. When villagers
arrived for midnight Mass,
outside they found the first
crèche (the belen or Nativity
scene).
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God become man is the central
Christian mystery.
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Thus, the Incarnation is no
mere theological concept.
MIND BOGGLING,
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ISN’T IT?
Yet you have made
him a little lower than
the heavenly beings
and crowned him with
glory and honor.
Psalms 8:5
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4 what are humans that you are mindful
of them, mortals that you care for
them?
5 Yet you have made them a little lower
of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the
Faith
A common initial response to the
Lord’s patient advances is declaring
our faith.
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It means a “turning.”
They are
continuing
activities…
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Occasionally, we must renew our
faith – in the midst of a family
crisis, disaster, for example or
during a time when God seems
more distant from us than the
start. Or we must continue our
conversion by turning back to God
after falling into some sin.
Discipleship is the lifelong process
of patterning our lives on Christ
and doing whatever he tells us.
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Jesus became one of us
to show us how to live
as Christians. His
splendid example is
another practical
consequence of
Incarnation.
When He invited us to
link up with Him and go
His way, He assured us
that with his grace we
could do it.
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Mt 11:29-30
“ TA K E M Y Y O K E U P O N
YOU AND LEARN FROM
ME, FOR I AM MEEK
A N D H U M B L E O F H E A R T;
AND YOU WILL FIND
R E S T F O R Y O U R S E LV E S .
F O R M Y Y O K E I S E A S Y,
AND MY BURDEN IS
L I G H T.” 32