Feast Series: Generations | Talk 2 | How The Generations Work

Welcome back to our exciting teaching series, GENERATIONS. Our core thesis: God wants all generations to serve TOGETHER. No one generation is better than the other. Each generation has a unique gift to offer the world, born of both their wisdom and their wounds. Talk 4 explores how different generations express love. Each generation expresses love in very different ways. This is why we have conflicts. We don’t understand each other. But we actually need each other to be different. Each generation’s expression of love is like one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle. You need the other pieces to complete the picture of this amazing thing called love. Talk 4 is divided into two parts: Part 1: How Boomers and Gen Xs Express Love Part 2: How Gen Ys and Gen Zs Express Love Talk 4’s big message is Carry each other.

WE’RE starting a brand-new series titled GENERATIONS: How You Were Shaped—And What You Can Do About It. Generations are groups of people born within the same, roughly 15- to 20-year time period, who share similar social, historical, and cultural experiences during their formative years. Because they grew up in the same context, they tend to develop similar values, attitudes, and behaviors, which shape their lifestyle, their work, their health, their relationships, and even their faith. This series will discuss the details about five generations: Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen A. We will discover the genius of each generation, the specific strength it developed because of its circumstances, but also its blind spots, its fragility, its Achilles heels. Its strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. If we reject a generation’s weakness, we may be rejecting its strength too. The Talk has not just one but two big messages: You are good and God is blessing your generation.

Last week, we started a brand-new series titled GENERATIONS: How You Were Shaped—And What You Can Do About It. In Talk 2: How Each Generation Works, we explore how each generation relates to work in various ways–and if we follow God and love our neighbor, these differences can complement and bless the world. The key message of Talk 2: God works through your work.

WELCOME to the third installment of GENERATIONS. Our core thesis: God wants all generations to serve TOGETHER. No one generation is better than the other. Each generation has a unique gift to offer the world, born of both their wisdom and their wounds. Talk 3 explores how each generation pursues wellbeing. Or what we call The Good Life. If we accept what each generation brings to the table, we can all become healthier and happier. Because each generation defines The Good Life differently. And how do we know a generation’s definition of wellbeing? Answer: Watch what they sacrifice for. The key message of Talk 3: “The work is too heavy for you—you cannot handle it alone.”

WELCOME to the last Talk of our series, CALLED TO WITNESS. This is the last talk of our series CALLED TO WITNESS. Talk 5 presents the other 4 Qualities of a Loving Community: Forgiving; Courageous; Humble; and Committed. The Israelites were faithfully devoted to following the Christian teachings. So, the Lord kept adding to their number daily.

Welcome to our new series, CALLED TO WITNESS: How To Share The Good News with Your World. God calls you to be His witness in your world: In your family. In your office. In your school. Among your friends. What will you share? Good News. But there is a lot of confusion about what Good News really means. Talk 1 clearly defines Good News. The key message of this Talk: God is making all things new.

WELCOME to the second-to-last installment of our series, CALLED TO WITNESS. A quick review: Talk 1: What Good News Are You Sharing? is about God’s call for you to be His witness in your world. The key message: God is making all things new. Talk 2, How Can I Be a Witness? is about what witness really means. In one sense, you don’t just choose to become a witness. Instead, the goodness of God will compel you to become a witness. The key message: The goodness of God will make you His witness. Talk 3, The Cost of Being a Witness, presents martyrs– those who were persecuted, who died, as they openly lived and defended the Catholic faith amid non-Christian countries or environments. To be God’s witnesses, we must encounter Jesus again and again. The key message: Keep meeting Jesus. Talk 4 laments that we’ve added to our Christianity, even to our Feast Community, stuff that makes us spiritually sick: Spiritual pride, self-righteousness, legalism, and hypocritical religiosity. In the process, we become bad witnesses. To follow God, we must do so with a bunch of imperfect friends and love each other. It’s God’s most important strategy for winning the world. This is the big dream of The Feast: To build small loving spiritual families all over the world. The key message: God is making us a loving community

WELCOME to the second installment of our series, CALLED TO WITNESS: How To Share The Good News with Your World. Talk 1 What Good News Are You Sharing? defined what is Good News (It is Jesus, not a retirement home in Heaven). The key message: God is making all things new. Talk 2 is about what witness really means. In the Bible, the Hebrew word for witness is eid. Eid isn’t something we do, but something we become—because of what we’ve experienced. The key message of Talk 2: The goodness of God will make you His witness.

OUR series, CALLED TO WITNESS, disturbs our comfortable life, because in this 5-Talk course, we’re exploring what it means to evangelize, to be witnesses for God. But being God’s witness is dangerous. Talk 3 presents martyrs–those who were persecuted, who died, as they openly lived and defended their faith amid non-Christian countries or environments. God still calls us to be His witnesses—His martyrs. Not necessarily shed blood, but to die to our own selfishness so we can witness God’s Love to the world. For many of us it is impossible to do that. The only solution is to encounter Jesus again, seeing His sacrifice on the Cross daily, and being so overwhelmed by His love, we cannot help loving Him back. The key message of Talk 3: Keep meeting Jesus.

WELCOME to Talk 5 of our series, HOW DID WE GET HERE? Making Sense of Life When Everything Falls Apart—A Bible Study on The Exile. The New Temple. A new world superpower, Persia, defeated Babylon. Persia did not set the Israelites free, but it allowed the Israelites to go back home to Jerusalem. They returned and rebuilt a new Temple. But it was not as grand as their former Temple. God did not intend for them to have just a building or a house. God gave them a Person as their New Temple–Jesus Christ. He would live in them, and they would be God’s House. That’s what you are now. The key message of Talk 5 is: You Are God’s House.