GYC Conference 2023: But If Not

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Contra Mundum

Sebastien Braxton

Callie Williams

When Everyone is Watching

When No One is Watching

Still: When Speaking Truth to Power

Still: When Your Fault is Your Faithfulness

When It’s Just You

We're also going to specifically focus on how we can be faithful in different contexts of our lives.

Okay, so now I have to do the seminar title and the session number.

So our title is Contra Mundum, which is against the world.

Well, let's say a word of prayer, and then we will dive into what lies ahead.

Father in heaven, we are so grateful to be here with you.

We're so grateful for the privilege and joy it is to study your word without fear.

I pray that in this time that we would learn more about who you are, We would see more clearly your character, your love, and how that directly impacts us today, of all days, and this moment of all moments.

Father, we ask that you'd empty us of ourselves and fill us with your Holy Spirit.

And we pray that you would open our eyes, that we may behold wondrous things in your law, and we would fall in love with you as we see you there.

We ask and pray all this in Jesus' name, amen.

So I just wanna give you a little bit of a heads up of what's coming down the pipeline.

So We're gonna, this is how, it's always gonna be split up, so if you come back in 2 sessions, and you're like, I wonder what their format is, it's the same way, so it can be very predictable.

So first we're gonna introduce a Bible study method.

Today's is, or this morning's, the first 1 is 2 C's and 2 R's.

So that's that time that you'll be sitting in your seat.

You can write on your phones, on a piece of paper, wherever you want to, but you're gonna practice.

It's gonna be quiet in here and there's gonna be nothing to do except recite the Bible.

Then Sebastian and I will share a few insights and then we're gonna do something that I feel is a little ambitious, but we're gonna try to answer 5 questions in 5 minutes, so pray for us, you know?

So there's gonna be a way that you can ask questions.

So this'll be the same thing for all of our sessions, QR code, a link there.

Yeah, you can scan that, take a picture of it.

You can submit questions at any time about maybe the passage or a way of studying the Bible or this is unclear or Sebastian said this super heretical thing, can you please clear that up for us?

You know, whatever strikes your fancy, whatever you wanna ask questions about.

So we'll have time for that at the end, but feel free to submit questions at any time.

This is gonna go away in 5432, well, maybe your neighbor has it, Okay.

So this time we're gonna go take our attention to the 2 C's and the 2 R's.

So I'll give a little bit of explanation for each 1 and then Sebastian will in turn give you an example from a Bible verse.

And it's this idea that you're sitting down with someone that has, maybe it's your grandfather, who has this story, and you're a little five-year-old, and you're like, why did that happen, Grandpa?

Did you like popsicles at that age, Grandpa?

You know, you're just asking those little kids, just ask all those questions.

You're trying to notice every single detail about a story.

So it's when you're approaching a text, you're noticing details, you're asking those questions.

This is incredibly important, especially the more and more familiar we get with scripture, the more our eyes kind of glaze over, you're like, I know that story.

This isn't exciting anymore, because I know what's going to come.

But it's taking the time to notice the very, very small detail, as well as the obvious detail.

The main questions we also continue to want to ask is, what does the text actually say, but also noticing, what does it not say?

What are we inserting because of tradition or because of what we just thought it may be said but that's actually not in the text itself.

So if you have your Bibles, go to the Gospel of John, Chapter 9, to apply this principle, to show you how this can unlock certain insights.

And so as Callie was saying, right, if you imagine that God is telling you the actual story, he's speaking the actual words that you're reading in the Bible, I imagine if God spoke to you wouldn't leave and just say, oh thanks, and then keep it moving, right?

How many of you would be like, hey God, can I ask a question?

Right, you would say, I need some clarity, right?

And so in very similar ways, we have to approach the Bible in the very same way.

OK, so I just want you guys to know you can talk to the preachers.

This is not just you listen and nod It's okay to talk.

So when Jesus speaks his people respond so in John 9 The Bible says in verse 1 and as Jesus did what what does your Bible say?

Passed by He saw a man which was blind from when?

From his birth so Immediately in this text right if someone's telling you this story.

Anyone else Any other questions you would ask based on this text remember what Callie put there right?

Where was Jesus going anyone else How long has he been blind What says from his birth, right?

So 1 clear question, right, I haven't heard yet, is why was Jesus passing by?

Clearly, the Bible writer wanted you to know this was not an intentional destination.

You know what you did on the way to this seminar Pass by a whole bunch of stuff Which means you were going somewhere you were coming from somewhere and what you're passing by was never your destination You following?

So the question is why was Jesus passing by?

Well look in chapter 8 right before this.

So the point is when you ask questions of the Bible, write them down.

A lot of times our insights in the Bible do not come from knowledge, they come from curiosity and questions.

Don't assume you understand what the text is saying.

You have to approach it as a little child.

1 of the greatest frustrations of doing family worship is the fact that my kids are going to stop you at every single statement and word that they don't know.

So I'm like, listen, when God comes down and it was the incarnation, right?

And then my 6 year old's like, Papa, what's incarnation?

Series

Contra Mundum

When No One is Watching

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Contra Mundum

Still: When Speaking Truth to Power

45m

Plenary

When the Devil Empties His Wallet

1h 53m

Plenary

The Key of the Gospel

1h 45m

Making Sons of Hell? The Don’ts and Do’s of Soul Winning

Addressing Objections and Answering Difficult Bible Questions

1h 2m

Contra Mundum

When It’s Just You

51m

Abused: Bruised but Not Broken

Beyond Me

57m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

1. To Know Christ

1h

Contra Mundum

When Everyone is Watching

41m

Missional Business

03 Breaking In: Christ’s Method of Marketing

58m

Devoted Devotions: A Vibrant Devotional Life for the Last Days

Bound by Devotion

59m

GYC 2012 Plenary Sessions

My Testimony

44m

GYC 2013 Seminar: The Gay Puzzle: Loving Gays to Christ

06-Turn Around: Q&A

1h 16m

Sound Doctrine