This morning in chapel I am preaching a sermon that in some form I have preached 3 times. I linked to it a few months ago from chapel this summer, and I am preaching a "redux" form this morning. Its nice to be able to work with the same idea/theme but spread it across multiple scripture texts. This morning it is Revelation 21:1-5b.
This clip above is my intro into the sermon, but I wanted to post just a piece regarding why it is important that the Church enter itself into the cultural eschatological landscape.
Robert Jenson describes the problem of modernity as “having a universal story without a universal storyteller”. When the world puts itself on a timeline, but has no shape or form to the story, we will end up making up our own stories regarding beginning and end. If the world started by chance...then it must end by chance. Apocalyptiscism, as presented by Hollywood, is our culture making its own timeline, reacting against the idea that humans could make everything perfect themselves. Our pendulum has swung to the opposite side of early 20th century liberalism When a finality is created apart from the idea of salvation and worship, we have a pretty bad fracture.
This is all part of a bigger project that I am working on that should go live in the next few weeks. I am excited about it.



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