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Lesson 4E: GODS CALL TO HOLINESS HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, SELF, and OTHERS I. EXPERIENCE-GRIP A. Recall a SITUATION in your life that you were HURT by someones wrong doings. What made you FEEL that way? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ B. What do you want to HAPPEN to the person who had hurt you? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ II. GRAPPLING WITH THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE A. READ: HOSEA 4:1-3 * Questions for reflection: 1. What are the CRIMES of Israel against God? a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) 2. What is the EFFECT of these crimes? = _______________ * CHRISTIAN MESSAGE: = _____________ CAUSES SUFFERING; thus a PATH to HOLINESS is HARMOMIOUS RELATIONSHIP with __________________________ B. READ: AMOS 5: 21-24 * Questions for reflection 1. What the Israelites were doing that God HATED/REJECTED? a.) b.) C.) d.) = _______________-WORSHIP that is EMPTY of its real content 2. What kind of WORSHIP is it that is ACCEPTABLE to God? (A.) __________________ that surges like water; (B.) and _________________ that unfailingly flows like a stream * CHRISTIAN MESSAGE: the passage informs me about a) Worship is directly connected with our __________ LIVING b) Worship of God will be EMPTY/WORTHLESS without LIVING _____________ and _______________ c) Our life must be lived as a LIVING _______________________ to God d) HOLINESS is LIVING LIFE ________________ UPRIGHT e) Thus, the primary PATH to HOLINESS is HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP with ______________ C. READ: JOEL 2:13-14 * Questions for reflection: 1. What God is reminding us as to WHO He is? a.) b.) c.) d.) * CHRISTIAN MESSAGE: the passage informs me about = God is a _______________, for He is _____________ 2. What God is CHALLENGING us sinners to consider? a) RETURN to Him with ___________ heart: with fasting, mourning, weeping b) REND our _____________, not our garments * CHRISTIAN MESSAGE: the passage informs me about a) God is calling us to be ________________ with Him b) We can return/reconcile ourselves to God only if we have a __________________ HEART: sorrowful over our unfaithfulness/sinfulness c.) Thus, a PATH to HOLINESS is HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH the _________________ III. The Christian Message CHALLENGES/TRANSFORMS me to 1. Confront my _________________ without excuses and blaming 2. Consider the suffering I brought to people I have done wrong by being truly _________ and ready to make ___________ 3. Respond positively to Gods call to holiness by living ________ upright (justly and righteously) as my daily offering/worship to God 4. Receive the Sacrament of ________________ IV. What should I do now? 1. 2. 3.

Prepared by: Lorenz S. Centino, Jr.