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Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | April 28, 2024
A Follower of Jesus Unfollowed but Re-followed Jesus.
The Backstory:
One day, a man named Simon and some other fishermen had been fishing all night in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 5:5). They’d not caught anything, when Jesus gave an unsolicited fishing tip (Luke 5:4-5). After instructing them to cast their nets into the deep water, they caught a boatload of fish (Luke 5:4-7). Jesus then said to Simon, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people” (Matt. 4:18-20, Mark 1:17). In addition, Jesus told Simon that he would be called Peter, which means “Rock” (John 1:42). And that was when, Peter left everything and became one of the 12 disciples, a follower of Jesus.
“Peter could be brash, impetuous, impulsive, and vacillating. His passion often got ahead of his head. There were times when Peter was a windbag, a blowhard. He made these unnecessary—as well as empty—boasts. In the upper room, Peter bragged to Jesus that he would lay down his life for Jesus (John 13:37).” —John E. Johnson
The Story:Feed My Sheep
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” John 21:15-17 (NIV)
Follow Me
Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!” John 21:18-19 (NIV)
Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them…. When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” John 21:20a-22 (NIV)
Your Story:
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Revelation 3:20 (NIV)
Reflection Questions:
1. Have you ever quit a team, class, or job? Why did you leave? In hindsight, was it a good decision?
2. Would you call yourself a follower of Jesus, a former follower, curious about following Jesus, or something else?
3. In the sermon, the question was asked, “How do we love Jesus?” The answer was, “We love Jesus by feeding his sheep and following him.” What would it look like for you to do those two things?
4. Journey Church’s purpose statement is: “Together, we’re leading people to become all-in followers of Jesus.” How do you envision your role in our church fulfilling that statement?
5. How would you answer the question, “What’s your next step?” in the growth path? For more information, go to: https://journeybozeman.com/about/
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Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 21, 2024
What comes to mind when you hear the title Lord?
Luke 6:46 (NIV)“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Why don’t I do what he says? 1 John 5:1-3 (NIV)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,
Obedience is not perfection
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship [...] is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough…Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you…Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day.” — David Foster Wallace, commencement ‘05
Luke 6:47-49 (NIV)As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
Digging:ApprenticeshipWorship = practiced obedienceTaking the plank out of your own eye (Luke 6:41-42)Tested, sturdy, weather storms well“No accidental saints”
Building on the sand:Hear ⧣ DoHaphazardly, hurried, rushed”Microwave, sprinkle Jesus”Fingers crossedFragile, delicate
James 1:22-25 (NIV)Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
Is he Lord of your life?Do you do what he says?Does obedience feel like a burden or worship?
Next Steps:
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Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 14, 2024
John 5:1-7 (NIV)Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Jesus- invitation to be made whole “do you want to be well”
Pool- what we look to for wholeness and healing. What’s your pool?
John 5:8-15 (NIV)Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
Mat- symbolic of sin/pain used for Jesus’ purposes in our lives. What’s your mat?
God never wastes our suffering
John 1:29b (NIV)“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 20:30-31 (NIV)Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Jesus’ invitation
…is to be made whole, 
…it’s beyond our pools
…he’ll redeem/use our mats
Reflection Questions:1. What is one felt need you are aware of at the moment?2. What gets in the way (i.e. fear, control, lack of trust) of receiving what God wants to do for, in, or through us?3. Jesus warns the man to not return to sin, in what areas are you tempted to return to your mat?
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Guest Speaker: Michael Jr. | April 7, 2024
Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.04.07.pdf

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 31, 2024
Acts 9:1-6 (NIV)Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott
Philippians 3:10-11 (NIV)I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:8b-9 (NIV)that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
Reflection Questions:
1. Have you had seasons in your life where you were running from God? What was that experience like? How did it change?
2. How are you experiencing the challenge and change of God in your life? Why is experiencing the challenge and change of God crucial to following Him? If we are not being challenged and changed what could that be evidence of?
3. How have you seen the resurrected Jesus meet you in your times of need? Despair. Anxiety. Doubt. Failure. Rebellion. Indifference. Where do you need Him to meet you today?
4. How have you seen the tendency to create God in our image? Why are we prone to assume that God is who we imagine Him to be rather than who He really is? How can make sure that our image of God is accurate?
Next Steps:
Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.31.pdf

Brandon Edwards | Worship & Creative Arts Pastor | March 29, 2024
1. Covenant is the only way to relate to God.
Deuteronomy 29:2a, 9, 12-18 (NIV)Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do. You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today. You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
Deuteronomy 29:9 (NIV)Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do
Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV)“But make sure there’s no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord your God and worships other gods.”
Deuteronomy 29:13b (NIV)“...that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Genesis 15:18 (NIV)“Therefore, God made a covenant with Abraham.”
Galatians 3:13-14 (NIV)“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to us all through Jesus Christ.”
2. Jesus followed the covenant perfectly and fulfilled the curse of the covenant by his death.
Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV)“Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God”
3. God wants all of your heart.
John 13:35 (NIV)“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
 
Next Steps:
Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.29.pdf