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Iron ManWeek #1
 John 15: 9-10
"I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves athome in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in mylove. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at homein his love. 
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"I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, andyour joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are myfriends when you do the things I command you. I'm no longer calling you servantsbecause servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No,I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard from theFather. 
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"You didn't choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bearfruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation tome, he gives you. 
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"But remember the root command: Love one another.
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1.)
Have everyone share his or her name and who theirfavorite super hero is. If they don’t have a favorite superhero ask them to share their favorite fictional hero. Going Deeper1.)Who is the film’s protagonist? (Tony Stark). As agroup come up with a three word definition to describethe Tony Stark we meet at the beginning of the movie?
2.)
Where did you find connections to and depictions of  Jesus’ words from John 15 in the film this week?
(Hopefully Yinsen’s death is an obvious choice.)3.)
What does Yinsen tell Tony when just before he dies?
(
 Yinsen
: [
to Stark after Stark thanks him for saving his life
] “Don'twaste two lives. Don’t waste your life.”
How was Tony wastinghis life? How do Tony’s achievements embody the goal of your education process in this country? (
Education,especially higher education, is financially driven. You do it so youcan get the best job which = having the most things (including
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fame and prestige). But that’s not the way it has to be. We canchange that by using our education as a launching pad formaking a difference in the world – not for ourselves but forothers. Explore with the students what a life that is not wastedlooks like? [It’s one that joins God’s renewing of the cosmosproject]. How can each of us live toward that now (hint – it’s notin everyone becoming a priest or minister – it’s in all of us usingour time, vocation and relationships to bring about wholeness,reconciliation, truth, beauty and justice.]
What would it look like for you to waste your life
? How can you avoid it?4.)
 Jesus words in John challenge us that loving yourneighbor as yourself is a fine place to start, but not asufficient place to finish.
 
Rhodie says to Tony, “You don’t
respectyourself, so I hardly expect you to respect me...”
How does our ability to love ourselves affect out ability to laydown our lives for our neighbor?
(Jesus laying down our life foreach other is how to “stay at home in God’s love”. That is the ultimatein self-less living but we can’t live in a truly self-less way unless welearn how to love ourselves.)
Tony Stark’s is the archtype of hedonistic selfishness, but it leaves him empty. What’s thedifference between self-gratification and self-love?5.)Psalm 20:6-8 says
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Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed;he answers him from his holy heavenwith the saving power of his right hand. 
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Some trust in chariots and some in horses,but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
 Tony Stark says: “*They* say that the best weapon is the one you never haveto fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it... and it's worked out prettywell so far.”
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