The one thing that’s necessary is to centre your crazy busy life upon Jesus. This message was given on January 11, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. Our Crazy Busy Lives
& The One Thing That’s Necessary
~ Luke 10:38-42 ~

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 10:38-42
Found on page 869 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

4. “We are so busy with a
million pursuits that we
don’t even notice the
most important things
are slipping away.”

5. How do we
find time for
what matters
most
?

6. Our Crazy Busy Lives
& The One Thing That’s Necessary
~ Luke 10:38-42 ~

7. Now as they went on their way, Jesus
Luke 10:38-39
entered a village. And a woman
named Martha welcomed him into
her house. And she had a sister
called Mary…

8. And [Martha] had a sister called Mary
Luke 10:39-40
who sat at the Lord’s feet and listen-
ed to his teaching. But Martha was
distracted with much serving.

9. And she went up to him and said,
Luke 10:40
“Lord, do you not care that my
sister has left me to serve alone?
Tell her to help me.”

10. But the Lord answered her, “Martha,
Luke 10:41-42
Martha, you are anxious and troubled
about many things, but one thing
is necessary.

11. But the Lord said, “______, ______,
you are anxious and troubled
about many things, but one thing
is necessary.”
Fill In Your Name

12. “Mary has chosen the good portion,
Luke 10:42
which will not be taken from her.”

13. “If you don’t feel strong desires for the
manifestation of the glory of God, it is not
because you have drunk deeply
and are satisfied. It is because
you have nibbled so long at
the table of the world.
Your soul is stuffed with
small things, and
there is no room
for the great.”
~ John Piper
A Hunger for God

14. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

15. The one thing that’s necessary
is to centre your crazy busy
life upon Jesus.
Main Idea

16. Diagnose your…1
…crazy busy life.

17. “Busyness serves as a kind of existential
reassurance, a hedge against emptiness;
obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial
or meaningless if you are so busy, completely
booked, in demand every hour of the day.”
~ Tim Kreider, “The ‘Busy’ Trap”

18. Pull up the weeds
in your life
2

19. “And others [ie., seeds] are sown among thorns.
They are those who hear the word, but the cares
of the world and the deceitfulness of riches, and
the desires for other things [“the pleasure of life”
- Luke 8:14] enter in and CHOKE the word, and it
proves unfruitful.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospel of Mark, 4:18-19

20. “‘The pleasures of this life…’—these are not evil in
themselves. These are not vices. These are gifts of
God. They are your basic meat and potatoes and
coffee and gardening and reading and decorating !
and traveling and investing and TV-watching and
Internet-surfing and shopping and !
exercising and collecting and !
talking. And all of them !
can become deadly !
substitutes !
for God.”
~ John Piper, A Hunger for God

21. 3
Fight for
what’s really
most important

22. It comes the very moment you wake up
each morning. All your wishes and hopes
for the day rush at you like wild animals.
And the first job each morning consists
simply in shoving them all back; in
listening to that other voice, taking that
other point of view, letting that other larger,
stronger, quieter life come flowing in.
“
~ CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

23. Remember what is
necessary: not something
we do for Jesus, but
something he wants to do
for us as we listen to Jesus.
Do you see the
difference…?

24. Jesus is not asking
something more from
us; he is asking for
less, so that he can
give us more of himself.

25. What do I
need less of
in my life so
that I can have
more of Jesus
?

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The ‘Busy’ Trap: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/?_r=0