Talk

The Glorious View from the Above + Beyond

Louie Giglio
July, 23, 2023

Louie launches Passion City Church into the Above + Beyond season by pointing to Jesus, Who is the epitome of what it means to go “Above + Beyond.” Jesus accomplished His self-sacrificing work to draw us to Him as worshipers and break us free from a “system,” “lie,” “view,” and “city.”

Key Takeaway

Walk in the freedom of Jesus' Above + Beyond triumph by breaking from the system, lie, view, and "city" that the Enemy has for you.

Jesus going “Beyond” enabled you to…

  1. Break with the system of religion and embrace the garbage heap of glorious grace.

  2. Break with the lie of guilt and shame and embrace our new identity as holy ones in

  3. Break with the low view of me and embrace that I am seated above with Christ.

  4. Break with the city of here and now and embrace the city that is to come.

“
"Jesus went to the cross innocent and died on it guilty, not of anything He had done but of everything we had done."
”
Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. Why is it important to be a giver not out of obligation but out of inclination?

  2. In your own words, describe the balance we are called to maintain between “abusing grace” and being legalistic.

  3. How is laying aside ‘shame’ up to us? What does it mean that Jesus already did His part in dealing with our shame?

  4. What is your “view of you”? In other words, if you are honest, what do you think about yourself in your best and worst moments?

  5. Can you think of any passages in Scripture that specifically deal with the identity of people as followers of Jesus? In other words, what Scripture can we have on our minds to combat a “low view of self”?

  6. What is the right attitude to have in enjoying the things of life that don’t last - things “in this city”?

  7. In your own words, what should “The Shard” remind us of?

  8. Why is it that thinking about eternity helps us live generously?

  9. Scripture calls us to “present our requests to God,” but it also calls us to seek God’s requests for ourselves (Eph. 5:17). Take a moment as a group to pray and ask God to speak to you about your own generosity.

Scripture References

20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.
21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.”
22Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23Jesus replied,
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27
“Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
28
Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

29The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30Jesus said,
“This voice was for your benefit, not mine.
31
Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.
32
And I, when I am lifted up
from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
10We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.
12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
13Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.
14For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9not by works, so that no one can boast.
10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.