The End is the Beginning is the End (2015.10.04 Sermon Audio)
October 5th, 2015 | John Chandler
John Chandler kicked off our month of reflecting on Vocation with a look at the larger story that our lives are part of.
Quotes and links mentioned:
- A huge number of people wake up in the morning and think, I gotta do something else, or Three more days until the weekend. This is because we were created to rule on behalf of God, as his kings and queens, in partnership with the Creator, but instead we now rule for ourselves, looking out for number one, no matter the expense to the earth or its inhabitants. — John Mark Comer
- The noble products of human ingenuity, whatever is beautiful, true and good in human cultures, will be cleansed from impurity, perfected, and transfigured to become a part of God’s new creation. They will form the ‘building materials,’ from which the glorified world will be made. — Miroslav Volf
- Against the popular view of heaven as an ethereal existence on clouds, the biblical view is that God will remake both heaven and earth and join them together forever. The picture of the end is “not one of ransomed souls making their way to a disembodied heaven but rather the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, uniting the two in a lasting embrace.” The Bible teaches us that what awaits us in the afterlife is embodied life in a re-created material universe called the new earth. Space, time and matter will all be redeemed. — Amy Sherman
- Making a career of Nothing — wandering through malls, killing time, making small talk, watching television programs until we know their characters better than our own children — robs the community of our gifts and energies and shapes life into a yawn at the God and savior of the world. The person who will not bestir herself, the person who hands herself over to Nothing, in effect says to God: you have made nothing of interest and redeemed no one of consequence, including me. — Cornelius Plantinga, Jr
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