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Learning from Peter: Vertical Habits
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Faithful speech is central to the Christian life. God is not just interested in having us contemplate him or appease him. God is interested in the dynamics of life together, shaped by good communication. Just as words form our habits in relationships with other people, the words of worship can form the habits of our relationship with God and the way we live out our faith. Vertical Habits is a name given to the process of connecting words used in our relationship with people with words used to express these emotions to God. In this series we will explore the development of Vertical Habits through prayer, learning from the life of Peter.
God created humans with glory and honor (Ps 8:6), yet sin results in shame, a loss of face and reputation. God uses his name to enter into the fray. The restoration of status, which all people long for, plays a key role in God’s mission throughout history. God desires to bless the nations with honor and to share his name with his people. By living for his name’s sake, God’s people exist in a community with new, different, and better standards for honor.
God created humans with glory and honor (Ps 8:6), yet sin results in shame, a loss of face and reputation. God uses his name to enter into the fray. The restoration of status, which all people long for, plays a key role in God’s mission throughout history. God desires to bless the nations with honor and to share his name with his people. By living for his name’s sake, God’s people exist in a community with new, different, and better standards for honor.
God created humans with glory and honor (Ps 8:6), yet sin results in shame, a loss of face and reputation. God uses his name to enter into the fray. The restoration of status, which all people long for, plays a key role in God’s mission throughout history. God desires to bless the nations with honor and to share his name with his people. By living for his name’s sake, God’s people exist in a community with new, different, and better standards for honor.
God created humans with glory and honor (Ps 8:6), yet sin results in shame, a loss of face and reputation. God uses his name to enter into the fray. The restoration of status, which all people long for, plays a key role in God’s mission throughout history. God desires to bless the nations with honor and to share his name with his people. By living for his name’s sake, God’s people exist in a community with new, different, and better standards for honor.
Today, we are being forced to re-imagine much of what doing church looks like. While the biblical ideas remain the same, we will need to rework some of our ways of thinking, and work out new patterns for doing things. To do this well, it is important to start by looking at what the bible says Church should be. This series is designed to be a series of renewal and reimagining as we move forward to the New Normal of church in post COVID19 world.
Today, we are being forced to re-imagine much of what doing church looks like. While the biblical ideas remain the same, we will need to rework some of our ways of thinking, and work out new patterns for doing things. To do this well, it is important to start by looking at what the bible says Church should be. This series is designed to be a series of renewal and reimagining as we move forward to the New Normal of church in post COVID19 world.
Guarding our hearts and minds means practicing bringing the bigness of redemption into the small ugly sin-ridden places we find ourselves. We begin with a posture of belonging that flows into a heart of thanksgiving.
It is easy to be afraid when we are faced with times of radical uncertainty. Our world feels like it is being rocked at its very foundations. Trust in our leaders, medicine, science and humanity can all be shaken. It becomes clear that not only do we not have the answers we need; we don’t even know how to deal with not having the answers. We are forced to confront two uncomfortable realities: things are not the way they should be, and we are not the way we should be. The good news is that we are part of a story grounded in, and capable of grounding us in, the radical certainly that both this world, and we ourselves, will be made new.
It is easy to be afraid when we are faced with times of radical uncertainty. Our world feels like it is being rocked at its very foundations. Trust in our leaders, medicine, science and humanity can all be shaken. It becomes clear that not only do we not have the answers we need; we don’t even know how to deal with not having the answers. We are forced to confront two uncomfortable realities: things are not the way they should be, and we are not the way we should be. The good news is that we are part of a story grounded in, and capable of grounding us in, the radical certainly that both this world, and we ourselves, will be made new.
It is easy to be afraid when we are faced with times of radical uncertainty. Our world feels like it is being rocked at its very foundations. Trust in our leaders, medicine, science and humanity can all be shaken. It becomes clear that not only do we not have the answers we need; we don’t even know how to deal with not having the answers. We are forced to confront two uncomfortable realities: things are not the way they should be, and we are not the way we should be. The good news is that we are part of a story grounded in, and capable of grounding us in, the radical certainly that both this world, and we ourselves, will be made new.
It is easy to be afraid when we are faced with times of radical uncertainty. Our world feels like it is being rocked at its very foundations. Trust in our leaders, medicine, science and humanity can all be shaken. It becomes clear that not only do we not have the answers we need; we don’t even know how to deal with not having the answers. We are forced to confront two uncomfortable realities: things are not the way they should be, and we are not the way we should be. The good news is that we are part of a story grounded in, and capable of grounding us in, the radical certainly that both this world, and we ourselves, will be made new.