Series: Waterstone Mission
December 31, 2023 | Larry Renoe
The most powerful "yes" often requires an equally powerful "no." So, let us walk this path together, embrace the paradox, and discover the transformative power of saying NO and saying YES to Jesus.
References:
- George Buttrick, Harvard chaplain said students would come into his office, “I don’t believe in God.” He would disarm: “Tell me what kind of God you don’t believe in. I probably don’t believe in that God either.”
- Bible App
- Lectio 365 App
- 4 Things Christians Must Reclaim, by Rebecca McLaughlin, The Gospel Coalition
- James K.A. Smith, “Of Predators and Planks,” Comment Magazine, vol. 35, no. 4, winter 2017, 6-7
- J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel, (1874), 174
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“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely from this point of view the promise of glory become highly relevant to our deepest desire. For glory means good rapport with God, acceptance by God and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all of our lives will open at last… then our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy but the truest index of our real situation… At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door… but all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get in.” - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Essays, 36-37
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