Christian Worldview - Part 4: Me First
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June 21, 2026
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Night of Worship, June 24 – 6:30pm – Knox Center Campus
OneLifers from both campuses are coming together for a powerful Night of Worship centered around worship, prayer, and communion. As we gather, we’ll take time to reflect on what God is doing in us, celebrate the grace of Jesus, and lean into the ways He continues to shape and transform our lives. This will be a meaningful night to slow down, seek Him together, and prepare our hearts for what’s ahead.
Come expectant. Come ready to worship. And don’t come alone—invite someone and live on mission with us. Childcare available for kindergarten and younger.
Women’s Bible Study - July 6
What if the thoughts holding you back aren’t actually true? Join us for a six-week Women’s Bible Study through Jennie Allen’s The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe. Together, we’ll uncover the lies that keep us stuck, discover God’s truth, and learn how to walk in the freedom He offers. The study begins July 6 and meets every Monday through August 10 at both campuses. Whether you're new to studying the Bible or have been walking with Jesus for years, there’s a place for you. Come connect with other women, grow in your faith, and be encouraged along the way. For more info or to register go to onelifeknox.com/events
OneLife Students, United Night - Murica Celebration - July 1
Wednesday night, July 1, our middle & high school students from both campuses will be coming together for a United Night - Murica Celebration. There will be games, worship, and a great message. It will take place at the Ball Road Campus. Doors open at 6:30pm and we will wrap up at 8:15pm. There will also be food, so students, be sure to come hungry! For more information write “United Night” on the Connection Card.
Join a Volunteer Team
There’s never been a better time to join a OneLife volunteer team. From our Kid City team, to First Impressions & Security, to Production & Worship, OneLife Students on Wednesdays, and our Connections Team during the week - there are tons of opportunities for you to get involved. Mark the Volunteering box on your Connection Card to get started!
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
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GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
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START TALKING:
When you were growing up, how did you experience a perceived "reality" where you were the "main character" of the story? How did this shape an unrealistic worldview that the real world shattered?
START THINKING:
Read Luke 15:11-20.
How does the younger brother essentially tell his Father, "I wish you were dead"?
What community did he walk away from in pursuit of his own desires and "authentic self"?
Where did it ultimately lead him and what did he eventually learn?
What restored him? More individualism or community?
START SHARING:
When have you experienced individualism pulling you away from relationship, family, or Christian community?
Read Proverbs 25:16 and James 5:5.
How do these verses warn us against turning freedom into self-indulgence? When have you finally experienced freedom in an area only to find out that on your own it was actually quite dangerous?!
When have you experienced what the prodigal son did - that individualism and freedom actually led you to being quite empty? How did experiencing "belonging" with a community once again lead you back to where and what you were meant to be?
START DOING:
Look over the "Christian Alternative" section toward the end of the sermon notes and read the passages. Then discuss how you will do each of these this week:
Evaluate my decision making.
Model belonging at home.
Pursue Christian community.
Come home to the Father.
How will taking each of the steps above help not only to grow your own faith but also open opportunity for you to share with your "one" and invite them to come experience Jesus with you?
START PRAYING:
Pray for each person in the microchurch to reject the lies of individualism, even where they sneak up on us in ways we may not even recognize or realize. Pray that each person looks upward to God and outward to community as or even before they also look inward to self. Pray that we build such a strong, Spirit-led community of faith that it becomes impossible to avoid or reject for those around us where we live, work, and play.
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CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
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WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
June 21, 2026
YouVersion
Sermon Page
Podcast Audio
_____________________
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Night of Worship, June 24 – 6:30pm – Knox Center Campus
OneLifers from both campuses are coming together for a powerful Night of Worship centered around worship, prayer, and communion. As we gather, we’ll take time to reflect on what God is doing in us, celebrate the grace of Jesus, and lean into the ways He continues to shape and transform our lives. This will be a meaningful night to slow down, seek Him together, and prepare our hearts for what’s ahead.
Come expectant. Come ready to worship. And don’t come alone—invite someone and live on mission with us. Childcare available for kindergarten and younger.
Women’s Bible Study - July 6
What if the thoughts holding you back aren’t actually true? Join us for a six-week Women’s Bible Study through Jennie Allen’s The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe. Together, we’ll uncover the lies that keep us stuck, discover God’s truth, and learn how to walk in the freedom He offers. The study begins July 6 and meets every Monday through August 10 at both campuses. Whether you're new to studying the Bible or have been walking with Jesus for years, there’s a place for you. Come connect with other women, grow in your faith, and be encouraged along the way. For more info or to register go to onelifeknox.com/events
OneLife Students, United Night - Murica Celebration - July 1
Wednesday night, July 1, our middle & high school students from both campuses will be coming together for a United Night - Murica Celebration. There will be games, worship, and a great message. It will take place at the Ball Road Campus. Doors open at 6:30pm and we will wrap up at 8:15pm. There will also be food, so students, be sure to come hungry! For more information write “United Night” on the Connection Card.
Join a Volunteer Team
There’s never been a better time to join a OneLife volunteer team. From our Kid City team, to First Impressions & Security, to Production & Worship, OneLife Students on Wednesdays, and our Connections Team during the week - there are tons of opportunities for you to get involved. Mark the Volunteering box on your Connection Card to get started!
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
_____________________
GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
_____________________
Individualism:
The individual is the primary unit of reality, meaning, and authority.
The individual's desires, rights, goals, and self-expression take precedence over family, community, tradition, or institutions.
The belief that "the authentic self" is discovered by looking inward rather than upward to God or outward to community.
The individual is the primary unit of reality, meaning, and authority.
The individual's desires, rights, goals, and self-expression take precedence over family, community, tradition, or institutions.
The belief that "the authentic self" is discovered by looking inward rather than upward to God or outward to community.
The Lie: I have to think of me first.
The Truth: When life is all about me, I lose who I was meant to be.
The Truth: When life is all about me, I lose who I was meant to be.
Luke 15:11-13 NLT
To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons.The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.
1. Individualism pulls me away from relationship.
Luke 15:13 NLT
“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.
2. Individualism distorts freedom into self-indulgence.
Luke 15:14-16 NLT
About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
3. Individualism leaves me empty.
Luke 15:17-20 NLT
“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and youand I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’ “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
4. Belonging restores what individualism stole.
The Christian Worldview Alternative: Belonging over isolation.
1. Evaluate my decision making.
Psalms 139:23-24 NLT
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
2. Model belonging at home.
Acts of the Apostles 2:46 NLT They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity
3. Pursue Christian community.
Hebrews 10:24-25 NLT Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
4. Come home to the Father.
Luke 15:20 NLT
“So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
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START TALKING:
When you were growing up, how did you experience a perceived "reality" where you were the "main character" of the story? How did this shape an unrealistic worldview that the real world shattered?
START THINKING:
Read Luke 15:11-20.
How does the younger brother essentially tell his Father, "I wish you were dead"?
What community did he walk away from in pursuit of his own desires and "authentic self"?
Where did it ultimately lead him and what did he eventually learn?
What restored him? More individualism or community?
START SHARING:
When have you experienced individualism pulling you away from relationship, family, or Christian community?
Read Proverbs 25:16 and James 5:5.
How do these verses warn us against turning freedom into self-indulgence? When have you finally experienced freedom in an area only to find out that on your own it was actually quite dangerous?!
When have you experienced what the prodigal son did - that individualism and freedom actually led you to being quite empty? How did experiencing "belonging" with a community once again lead you back to where and what you were meant to be?
START DOING:
Look over the "Christian Alternative" section toward the end of the sermon notes and read the passages. Then discuss how you will do each of these this week:
Evaluate my decision making.
Model belonging at home.
Pursue Christian community.
Come home to the Father.
How will taking each of the steps above help not only to grow your own faith but also open opportunity for you to share with your "one" and invite them to come experience Jesus with you?
START PRAYING:
Pray for each person in the microchurch to reject the lies of individualism, even where they sneak up on us in ways we may not even recognize or realize. Pray that each person looks upward to God and outward to community as or even before they also look inward to self. Pray that we build such a strong, Spirit-led community of faith that it becomes impossible to avoid or reject for those around us where we live, work, and play.
_______________________________
CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
_____________________
WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
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