Christ Community - Brookside Campus
Romans - September 8 | Brookside
A Family Caught Up in Mystery - 9 & 10:45 AM & ON DEMAND
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Christ Community - Brookside Campus
400 W 67th St, Kansas City, MO 64113, USA
Sunday 7:00 AM
Title: A Family Caught Up in Mystery
Reference: Romans 11:33-36
Speaker: Taylor Fair, TaylorF@cckc.church
Reference: Romans 11:33-36
Speaker: Taylor Fair, TaylorF@cckc.church
– As God’s family, we have to learn to embrace mystery.
– Resist cultural aversions to mystery.
The kinds of experience that were once the most important of all, meditations on God and the divine, holy rituals and cults, visions and raptures occurring in lives wholly devoted to God and the divine mystery, this resolve to seek meaning, this fervor, with all its spectra of intuitions, moods, and emotions, is no longer sought…when we closed the door on religion, we closed the door on something inside ourselves as well. Not only did the holy vanish from our lives, all the powerful emotions associated with it vanished too…the short yet intense bursts of emotion it can discharge in my soul, the sudden swell of joy and grief that can arch up inside me like a sky if I happen to encounter something unexpected or something commonplace in an unexpected way. (Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, volume 6)
– Put yourself in the path of beauty.
– Rejoice in mysteries already revealed.
– Awaken yourself to the glory of the gospel.
– Remain curious about mysteries not yet revealed.
We ordinary people hustle along; trying to get through the detailed work of each day, and respond reasonably well to its demands, opportunities, and obligations. We are obsessed by the ceaseless chain of events and forget for the most part the mystery that surrounds us; the overplus of spiritual reality and power, far beyond anything that we are able to conceive, and yet constantly and intimately conditioning us. ~ Evelyn Underhill, Concerning the Inner Life
– Lose yourself in the wonder of worship.
Worship is the only appropriate response to the revelation of God's deepest truths. We are finite creatures who will never understand the Lord exhaustively, even as we learn more and more about Him throughout eternity. We will never cease to be in awe of Him. Instead, our awe must and will grow. Let us worship our Lord. ~ R.C. Sproul
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