WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.280 our hearts as we continue in this time together. We pray that your blessing not only on the 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:09.960 discussions but on a little bit later when we have time just to reflect contemplatively on 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:15.800 what we're diving into today. We pray your continued blessing on Dr. Entz in your son's 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:24.420 name. Amen. Erwin, I'll invite you back up to continue. All right. Amen. Well, I feel like, 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:32.620 well, you might not. I feel like in the first session I was kind of just opening a fire hose 00:00:32.620 --> 00:00:39.000 and like shooting it at you. You might have felt like you were drinking from a fire hose as I was 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:48.820 going through it with a lot of speed to skipping over stuff. But I was doing that to, and I do hope 00:00:48.820 --> 00:00:57.520 your discussions were fruitful. But I was doing that to get to this because this really is, that was 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:04.719 important and laying a foundation, but this is where I was trying to get us to 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:14.460 image and identity in community, that we are formed by God to image him 00:01:14.459 --> 00:01:25.500 and to be his image bearers in community. And so, right, we are, what does it mean for us to be 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:33.339 image bearers? We talked about one aspect of that, which is so important, individual dignity, 00:01:34.299 --> 00:01:43.639 the way that we struggle to live that out in our own selves and the way we can devalue others. 00:01:44.459 --> 00:01:55.519 But the other aspect of this is that we are made not simply to be individuals, but we are made by God 00:01:55.519 --> 00:02:08.539 for community. We are hardwired by God to commune with others. It is significant that the Lord says, 00:02:08.539 --> 00:02:18.539 let's make humanity in our image according to our likeness, and it says, so he made them, male and female, 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:26.919 according to his image. Right? It didn't say he made him, it said he made them. So from the very beginning, 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:37.879 we've been hardwired for community and communion with others. And so, for me, I skipped over, 00:02:38.359 --> 00:02:44.879 much to Pastor Tommy's chagrin, I skipped over the Herman Bovink quote, the last one. This one I'm not 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:53.759 skipping over because this one is money. This is my favorite quote from Dutch reform theologian, 00:02:53.759 --> 00:03:05.519 Herman Bovink, one of my favorite dead guys to quote. In his reform dogmatics on God and creation, 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:13.259 in his section on the image of God, he says this. It's a long, but just stay with me. 00:03:13.259 --> 00:03:20.459 The image of God is much too rich to be fully realized in a single human being, however richly 00:03:20.459 --> 00:03:27.259 gifted that human being may be. It can only be somewhat unfolded in its depths and riches 00:03:27.259 --> 00:03:35.419 in a humanity counting billions of members. Just as the traces of God are spread over many, many works 00:03:35.419 --> 00:03:43.719 in both space and time. So also the image of God can only be displayed in all its dimensions and 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:51.519 characteristic features in a humanity whose members exist both successively, one after the other, 00:03:51.839 --> 00:04:01.039 and contemporaneously side by side. Only humanity in its entirety, as one complete organism, 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:09.060 summed up under a single head, spread out over the whole earth as prophet proclaiming the truth of 00:04:09.060 --> 00:04:16.420 God, as priest dedicating itself to God, as ruler controlling the earth and the whole of creation, 00:04:16.620 --> 00:04:25.759 only it is the fully finished image, the most telling and striking likeness of God. What he's saying 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:39.620 is that, yes, individual dignity, right? Immeasurable value and worth for each person, no matter what your 00:04:39.620 --> 00:04:55.740 status in life is. But you cannot get a full picture of what it means for humanity to be the image of God. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:06.379 Unless you see all of humanity together. All of humanity, he says, summed up under a single head, 00:05:06.459 --> 00:05:16.120 that's Jesus Christ. All deemed humanity, right? What God has created us to do. As prophet proclaiming 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:23.539 the truth of God, as priest dedicating itself to God, as ruler exercising dominion over the creation. 00:05:23.540 --> 00:05:31.780 He says, it's the fully finished image, the most telling and striking likeness of God. And I would expand it, 00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:42.900 I'd nuance, Bob, to say the image of God is much too rich to be fully realized in one ethnicity or one race. 00:05:42.899 --> 00:05:54.099 It's so much of how we have lived in Christian community is that the, what it means to be the image of God is, 00:05:54.099 --> 00:06:04.699 is summed up again in our ecclesial tribe, which is more than likely in this country, at least, monoethnic. 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:16.680 You can't get, so part of the point is, when we're lacking this diversity in redeemed community, 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:24.620 we are missing out on facets of what it means for us to be the image of God. It has very practical 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:37.420 implications. Paul puts it this way in Ephesians chapter 1 in this long, right, extended sentence 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:44.459 in the Greek, this sentence of, this prayer and this praise, blessed be the God and Father of our 00:06:44.459 --> 00:06:52.399 Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:59.159 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless 00:06:59.159 --> 00:07:08.099 before him in love. He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:14.820 the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:21.939 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the 00:07:21.939 --> 00:07:28.920 riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known to us, here it is, 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:41.340 the mystery of his will, making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 00:07:41.340 --> 00:07:51.080 as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. 00:07:51.079 --> 00:08:19.379 including us. That Christ is the head. This word unite has the sense of summing up. 00:08:19.379 --> 00:08:28.060 summing up everything in Jesus Christ. Paul says, according to the mystery of his will. He's going to use 00:08:28.060 --> 00:08:34.820 that word mystery later on in this epistle. He's going to talk about the mystery of the gospel. 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:43.299 What was concealed before that is revealed now. What is the mystery of the gospel? That Jew and Gentile are 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:51.179 together in one body. That Christ has broken down the dividing wall of hostility to make one new man 00:08:51.179 --> 00:09:01.539 from the two. That this summing up, this reconciling, this bringing back together, this reuniting what has 00:09:01.539 --> 00:09:12.879 previously been divided under Jesus Christ is God's plan and purpose. That's where we're headed. And so, 00:09:13.419 --> 00:09:25.399 Peter Lightheart, in an interview he did recently, he had a book, a book that was published in 2017, 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:33.379 that kind of commemoration of the 500 year anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The title of his book is 00:09:33.379 --> 00:09:42.519 The End of Protestantism. And by end, he means in two ways, right? The end, the telos, the goal 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:49.899 of Protestantism. But the goal of Protestantism is the end of Protestantism. That the Reformation wasn't 00:09:49.899 --> 00:09:55.720 started to create some new branch of the church. It was a calling to the church, back to the scriptures 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:01.980 for the purpose of unifying the church, right? And so he says this, he said this in an interview 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:09.259 in 2017 about his book. He says, the church is a sign of a cosmic unity that all things are summed up 00:10:09.259 --> 00:10:15.600 in Christ. And the church is to be the visible communion of human beings that anticipates the 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:23.580 ultimate union of all things in Christ. It is a living sign, a community where that unity is already 00:10:23.580 --> 00:10:31.519 experienced in some degree. This is, he says, in some respects, the whole point of redemptive history, 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:40.460 that God is going to knit back the human race in his son. And when the church fails to be that 00:10:40.460 --> 00:10:47.180 proleptic, that forward-looking reality of the eschatological union of all things in Christ, 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:54.660 then we are very deeply failing in the calling we've been given. He's talking about the church, 00:10:54.780 --> 00:11:05.780 capital C, universal church, but I would apply it to the local church. That we, in our local 00:11:05.779 --> 00:11:12.600 community, that the local community is going to be the same. That the whole communion is going to 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:18.659 be the same. That the world of the reality that God is going to knit back the human race in his son. 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:31.379 That we are a living sign of this. That the kingdom future reality has broken into the here and now. 00:11:31.379 --> 00:11:39.360 You should get a taste of it in our communions. Yes and amen. 00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:52.120 And when we are not living into that reality, we are failing, he says. We are very deeply failing 00:11:52.120 --> 00:12:01.940 in the calling in the calling that we've been given. You see, this beautiful community, this reality 00:12:01.940 --> 00:12:12.440 that we image God most powerfully as beautiful community, right? We are, to quote again from, 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:18.500 this is John Frame, one of my favorite theologians, we are not merely the image of some of the divine 00:12:18.500 --> 00:12:26.600 attributes. We image God himself who is inseparable from all his attributes. And so if God's beauty 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:38.879 is seen in his Trinitarian life as Father, Son, Holy Spirit, distinct, but one, unity in diversity, 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:44.720 we should expect that beauty to be reflected in the humanity that images him. 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:54.379 Again, so while each individual has immeasurable value and dignity because we're God's image, 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:05.180 the most significant way we bear his image is in community. We don't go far enough when we talk 00:13:05.180 --> 00:13:10.540 about the image of God if we only talk about individuals. If we only talk about you and me 00:13:10.539 --> 00:13:20.339 as individuals being the image of God. God is too immense. He's too rich and majestic for the 00:13:20.339 --> 00:13:31.079 totality of what it means to be his image to be summed up in a single person. So this is the work 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:42.700 of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4, Colossians 3, he is preeminently concerned 00:13:42.700 --> 00:13:51.379 with renewing us in knowledge according to the image of our creator. It's how the apostle puts it, 00:13:52.220 --> 00:14:00.920 right? He talks about in Colossians and Ephesians these practical ways in which we are the image of God. 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:06.639 And these are always, these are always in the context of unity and diversity. 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:14.039 That's the expectation and the anticipation of the church in the New Testament. 00:14:15.199 --> 00:14:20.740 And so in Colossians 3, when he's talking about, right, to put to death what's earthly in you, 00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:28.319 to put on, therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, to put on kindness and humility, 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.740 bearing with one another. This is all in the context of your diversity. 00:14:35.900 --> 00:14:42.960 And Paul says in Romans chapter 15, again, same kind of thing, dealing with Jew and Gentile in 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:49.820 the Roman church. And they've been having conflict that's spelled out in Romans chapter 14, 00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:55.180 where some say you can eat, you should only eat vegetables, and others say, no, you can eat meat. 00:14:55.260 --> 00:15:01.840 Some say you can't drink wine, right? And others say, no, no, no, you can drink wine. And Paul is saying, 00:15:01.940 --> 00:15:08.760 do not, do not for the sake of food, destroy the one for whom Christ died. 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:17.740 And he starts out chapter 15, saying, we who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:24.159 of the weak and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for good. 00:15:25.419 --> 00:15:31.159 Because as it is written, he quotes from Psalm 69, for even Christ didn't please himself. As it is 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:38.600 written, the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Paul's talking about those who are 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:42.960 weak in the faith, those who are strong in the faith. And he wraps up that passage saying, 00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:54.040 saying, therefore, right, may the God who grants endurance and encouragement, may he, may he enable 00:15:54.040 --> 00:16:02.620 you to live in such harmony with one another, that together you may, with one voice, glorify the God 00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:08.080 and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. That you may together, in all your diversity in Christ, 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:14.060 that you may together with one voice, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:16:14.300 --> 00:16:20.340 And then he says, therefore, welcome one another the way Christ welcomes you for the glory of God. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:27.520 This aspect has practical implications of what it means to be his image. 00:16:29.300 --> 00:16:36.259 Bearing with one another, supporting with one another across lines of difference. I love this quote. 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:47.379 From Stephen Guthrie, that book again I mentioned to you, Create a Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and the art of becoming human. 00:16:48.259 --> 00:16:56.700 He says, one may think of the Spirit much more personally and creatively as an artist whose one subject is the Son, 00:16:57.259 --> 00:17:04.920 whose one subject is Jesus Christ, and who is concerned to paint countless portraits of that 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:14.800 subject on countless human canvases using the paints and brushes provided by countless human cultures and historical situations. 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:22.080 It is Jesus, the incarnate Son of the Father and no other, that the Spirit seeks to portray. 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:29.779 And each portrait is successful and creative, not because it makes of him what he is not, 00:17:29.779 --> 00:17:34.779 forming him in our likeness and conforming him to our preferences and predilections, 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:48.639 but because it uses ever new cultural approaches and historical situations to bring out more of the infinite variety of saving truth that is in him. 00:17:49.779 --> 00:17:55.920 That the one subject of the Spirit of God is the Son of God. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:04.920 He's the artist, he's the artist, and he is painting the portrait of his Son on countless human canvases 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:12.920 and using different cultural and historic situations to paint that portrait, 00:18:13.700 --> 00:18:19.039 to bring out more of the infinite variety of saving truth that's in Jesus. 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:27.259 This is what it means to be a beautiful community. 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.039 You know, in order... 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.200 Okay, I've got to read this one again. 00:18:32.619 --> 00:18:33.559 This one is good, too. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:35.480 All right. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:36.399 All right. 00:18:36.899 --> 00:18:38.139 What's my time frame again? 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:39.259 You're good. 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:39.960 I'm good. 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.620 I'm not going to believe... 00:18:43.620 --> 00:18:44.640 I'm going to believe her. 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:46.360 I'm not going to believe you. 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:54.960 Guthrie, again... 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.799 I love this. 00:18:56.840 --> 00:18:57.079 He says, 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:04.299 The Holy Spirit is not an automated die press punching out stacks of Jesus copies one after another. 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:11.559 The Spirit's perfecting work is creative and sensitive to the character of the material before him. 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.839 Those filled by the Spirit are one body of Christ, renewed in his image, 00:19:16.919 --> 00:19:23.259 yet varieties of services and diverse gifts are given by one and the same Spirit 00:19:23.259 --> 00:19:27.339 who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:35.319 The work of the Spirit is both particularizing or diversifying and unifying. 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:41.259 The distinctiveness of each member does not destroy the unity of the body. 00:19:41.699 --> 00:19:46.339 The unity of the body does not annul the distinctiveness of each member. 00:19:47.459 --> 00:19:54.459 The new creation will be beautiful because there will be harmony and right relationship 00:19:54.460 --> 00:20:00.259 between God and humanity, among humanity, and among all that God has made. 00:20:00.420 --> 00:20:05.620 Each thing will be most truly what it is, and what is more and amazing, 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:11.259 the utterly distinct character of each being will contribute to the beauty of the whole. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:19.600 So again, this beautiful community, we're not about... 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:21.599 It's not about... 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:23.659 It's not about color blindness. 00:20:25.159 --> 00:20:33.659 It's not about doing away with any distinctions or distinctives in the difference. 00:20:35.659 --> 00:20:43.099 It is seeing the contribution of the image of God in each of that distinction, 00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:44.619 those distinctives. 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.480 To see it as we come together contributing to the beauty of the whole. 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:53.599 And so, let me find out where I'm going because... 00:20:55.159 --> 00:21:00.899 I know you've got to at least quote a little bit more scripture. 00:21:03.579 --> 00:21:07.039 John, in Revelation, talks about... 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.159 There's a cosmic unity that we will see. 00:21:10.719 --> 00:21:14.419 A cosmic unity that's at the heart of the gospel. 00:21:14.420 --> 00:21:20.039 And John sees the new heaven and the new earth, 00:21:20.120 --> 00:21:25.740 and he sees the holy city from Jerusalem coming down out of heaven 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:29.100 as a bride adorned for her husband. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.920 And he hears this loud voice from the throne saying, 00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:36.360 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. 00:21:36.860 --> 00:21:39.240 He will dwell with them, and they will be his people. 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:43.339 God himself will be with them as their God. 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:47.299 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, 00:21:47.420 --> 00:21:50.099 and death shall be no more. 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:54.480 Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.960 for the former things have passed away. 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:06.120 And a significant part of those former things that have passed away, 00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:09.660 that will have passed away in the new heavens and the new earth 00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:18.559 is the pernicious polarization that divides us in the here and now. 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:32.419 And we know it because he talks about seeing the tree of life again in the holy city. 00:22:33.159 --> 00:22:39.960 And he says that the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:48.700 That this is the healing that Christ is going to bring into full consummation 00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:51.200 in the new heavens and the new earth. 00:22:51.340 --> 00:23:03.559 And again, again, the church is to be a forward-looking sign of that reality in the here and now. 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:10.319 We're supposed to be pursuing that by the power of the Spirit in the here and now. 00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:12.899 I'm going to do this briefly. 00:23:13.059 --> 00:23:14.779 Do I have, what, about seven, eight minutes? 00:23:17.379 --> 00:23:18.519 That's the time he says, yeah. 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:20.259 I got ten. 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:22.799 And Deborah says I got ten to fifteen. 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:32.879 So, right, in my denominational tribe, 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:40.039 the PCA, right, we adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith. 00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:47.220 And it's amazing to me how little attention in our denomination. 00:23:47.399 --> 00:23:52.039 So the PCA is overwhelmingly white as a denomination. 00:23:52.039 --> 00:24:00.480 We have about 4,900 pastors in our denomination. 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.120 Fifty-five of them are black. 00:24:04.360 --> 00:24:06.440 Thirty-six of them are Latino. 00:24:07.740 --> 00:24:10.099 And there's one Native American. 00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:17.259 There are about somewhere between three and four hundred who are Asian American, primarily Korean. 00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:22.579 And so, right, you know, as a black pastor in the PCA, we like to say we are the one percent. 00:24:27.140 --> 00:24:35.740 But I, when I speak in my denominational context, 00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:39.460 I say to our churches and our listeners, 00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:44.480 say, I'm not calling you to some new fangled thing, 00:24:44.579 --> 00:24:47.799 some new way of thinking about the church, 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:56.319 some real new way to be, you know, culturally relevant in a society that cares about multiculturalism. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:58.000 So, no, no, no. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:04.880 What I'm calling us to do is to live into our biblical and confessional commitments. 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:12.660 And so, chapter 26 of the Westminster Confession of Faith is on the communion of the saints. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:23.079 And this is what they wrote back in the 17th century, right, in Westminster in England. 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:29.279 All saints who are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by his spirit and by faith, 00:25:29.639 --> 00:25:34.419 have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory. 00:25:34.939 --> 00:25:37.279 And being united to one another in love, 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:40.519 they participate in each other's gifts and graces 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:45.599 and are obligated to perform those public and private duties 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:50.480 which lead to their mutual good both inwardly and outwardly. 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:59.299 They are obligated to perform those public and private duties 00:25:59.299 --> 00:26:04.440 that lead to their mutual good both inwardly and outwardly. 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:05.680 And then they continue. 00:26:06.099 --> 00:26:10.240 It's the duty of professing saints to maintain a holy fellowship 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:12.579 and communion in the worship of God 00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:15.279 and in performing such other spiritual services 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:17.720 as help them to edify one another. 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:23.200 It is their duty to come to the aid of one another in material things 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.279 according to their various abilities and necessities. 00:26:27.660 --> 00:26:29.100 And here's the money sentence. 00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:33.120 As God affords opportunity, 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:39.279 this communion is to be extended to all those in every place 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:42.120 who call on the name of the Lord Jesus. 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.839 This is in England. 00:26:47.899 --> 00:26:49.419 So you ask the question, 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:55.339 how is it that Presbyterians who came to the shores of America, 00:26:55.619 --> 00:26:58.639 Presbyterian theologians, could write justifications for slavery? 00:26:59.419 --> 00:27:01.659 How is it that you could be a slave owner 00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:08.040 and be an elder in a Presbyterian church in America? 00:27:10.040 --> 00:27:14.340 When every pastor and every elder 00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:17.580 has always had to say 00:27:17.580 --> 00:27:21.720 that I believe that the Westminster Confession of Faith 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.160 together with its larger and shorter catechisms 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:29.259 is an expression of the doctrine laid out in Scripture. 00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:32.620 You have to say that 00:27:32.620 --> 00:27:34.120 before you can be ordained. 00:27:36.120 --> 00:27:37.800 So they said, 00:27:38.380 --> 00:27:39.840 this is a duty. 00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:43.900 And yet they could say, 00:27:44.060 --> 00:27:46.240 oh, we will support laws 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:50.259 in states like Virginia and otherwise 00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:50.839 that say, 00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:53.079 oh, yeah, no, no, no, no. 00:27:53.339 --> 00:27:54.259 We're okay. 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:55.819 You can convert your slaves 00:27:55.819 --> 00:27:58.440 because becoming a Christian 00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:00.480 doesn't necessarily mean you become free. 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:02.620 How? 00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:03.140 Right? 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:07.140 It is because, 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.759 it is because 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:14.339 we still, still, still, 00:28:14.339 --> 00:28:15.539 even in Christ 00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:17.619 are so tempted 00:28:17.619 --> 00:28:20.279 to get value, dignity, and worth 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:21.039 from our tribe. 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.399 Which, which means 00:28:24.399 --> 00:28:27.220 we can devalue somebody else. 00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:30.159 Even though we know 00:28:30.159 --> 00:28:32.259 the Scriptures give us no warrant for that. 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:32.699 In fact, 00:28:32.919 --> 00:28:34.039 the Scriptures give us warrant 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:34.799 for the opposite. 00:28:37.059 --> 00:28:37.980 I think, you know, 00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:38.339 there's a, 00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:40.879 there's a book, 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:42.359 a hymn book, 00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:43.299 two-volume hymn book 00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:46.039 by James Weldon Johnson, 00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:47.519 who is the author 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.579 of the, 00:28:49.579 --> 00:28:52.279 the Negro National Anthem, 00:28:52.379 --> 00:28:53.819 Lift Every Voice and Sing. 00:28:54.419 --> 00:28:55.700 He and his brother 00:28:55.700 --> 00:28:58.019 put together a book, 00:28:58.720 --> 00:28:59.460 this hymn book, 00:28:59.579 --> 00:29:00.079 called 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:01.619 The American Negro Spirituals 00:29:01.619 --> 00:29:03.539 in the early 1900s, 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:03.980 where he, 00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:06.159 where he put 00:29:06.159 --> 00:29:07.299 all of the, 00:29:07.299 --> 00:29:08.619 all the Negro Spirituals 00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:09.299 to music, 00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:10.379 right, 00:29:10.500 --> 00:29:11.859 for the benefit of the church, 00:29:11.859 --> 00:29:13.759 because it's not like most hymnals, 00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:15.159 you don't know who wrote 00:29:15.159 --> 00:29:16.559 those spirituals. 00:29:16.579 --> 00:29:17.919 They were formed 00:29:17.919 --> 00:29:18.699 and forged 00:29:18.699 --> 00:29:19.479 in a community. 00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:20.939 And, 00:29:21.019 --> 00:29:21.859 and he writes 00:29:21.859 --> 00:29:23.119 this beautiful introduction 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:23.859 to the book, 00:29:24.199 --> 00:29:25.079 a poem 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:26.159 called 00:29:26.159 --> 00:29:28.179 Oh, Black and Unknown Bards. 00:29:28.539 --> 00:29:29.539 It's kind of an ode 00:29:29.539 --> 00:29:30.799 to the unknown 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.599 authors 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:32.779 of the spirituals. 00:29:32.779 --> 00:29:33.719 And this one line, 00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:34.839 he just says 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:35.639 in the last stanza, 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:36.900 you sang 00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:37.540 far better 00:29:37.540 --> 00:29:38.240 than you knew. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:40.180 For this 00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:40.920 to you belong. 00:29:41.060 --> 00:29:42.480 You didn't sing 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:42.920 of, 00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:44.340 of triumphs 00:29:44.340 --> 00:29:44.540 and, 00:29:44.620 --> 00:29:45.680 and war is won, 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:46.480 but you sang 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:46.800 of a, 00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:47.820 of a race 00:29:47.820 --> 00:29:48.880 from wood 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:49.620 and stone 00:29:49.620 --> 00:29:50.740 to Christ. 00:29:51.340 --> 00:29:52.560 And I think about that, 00:29:52.600 --> 00:29:53.600 when I think about 00:29:53.600 --> 00:29:55.180 like the Westminster 00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:56.280 Confession of Faith, 00:29:57.040 --> 00:29:57.960 I say to myself, 00:29:58.040 --> 00:29:58.480 they wrote 00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:58.920 far better 00:29:58.920 --> 00:29:59.560 than they knew. 00:30:00.600 --> 00:30:01.340 They wrote 00:30:01.340 --> 00:30:01.820 far better 00:30:01.820 --> 00:30:02.460 than they knew 00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:02.880 because, 00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.140 right, 00:30:03.340 --> 00:30:04.160 they were immersing 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.940 themselves in what 00:30:04.940 --> 00:30:05.540 does the word 00:30:05.540 --> 00:30:06.480 of God say. 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:08.019 And, 00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:08.640 and yet, 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:09.960 they didn't know 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:11.360 this kind 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:12.019 of, 00:30:12.019 --> 00:30:12.400 of, 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:12.700 of, 00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.180 of, 00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:14.120 of diversity 00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:15.340 and engagement 00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:16.560 and valuing 00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:17.259 of, 00:30:17.340 --> 00:30:18.620 of black bodies. 00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:21.240 But because of the spirit, 00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:21.759 they wrote 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.660 far better 00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:24.259 than they knew. 00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:25.560 All right, 00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:26.259 here's practical 00:30:26.259 --> 00:30:26.740 and we're gonna, 00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:27.779 we're gonna end here, 00:30:28.120 --> 00:30:28.560 I think. 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.720 This is like, 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:31.920 here it is again, 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:32.880 back to the ghettoization 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:33.580 of humanity. 00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:34.819 This article 00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:37.119 in the Washington Post 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.019 in November of 2013 00:30:40.019 --> 00:30:42.460 about the rise 00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:44.359 of super zip codes 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:45.099 in America. 00:30:45.659 --> 00:30:45.759 Right, 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:47.099 these super zip codes 00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:47.579 are, 00:30:48.139 --> 00:30:49.579 zip codes ranking 00:30:49.579 --> 00:30:50.480 in the highest 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:52.539 income 00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:53.799 in college education. 00:30:54.220 --> 00:30:54.419 Right, 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:54.899 and, 00:30:55.539 --> 00:30:55.679 right, 00:30:56.059 --> 00:30:56.159 the, 00:30:56.439 --> 00:30:57.339 if you can see 00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:58.079 in the bright, 00:30:58.199 --> 00:30:58.659 if you can see 00:30:58.659 --> 00:30:59.079 the bright, 00:30:59.159 --> 00:30:59.279 right, 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:01.119 these are contiguous, 00:31:01.539 --> 00:31:02.039 in other words, 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:03.539 contiguous zip codes 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:04.220 of affluence. 00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:06.099 And, 00:31:06.339 --> 00:31:07.899 you can see 00:31:07.899 --> 00:31:08.519 in America, 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.039 right, 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:10.599 that most of the 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:11.299 super zips 00:31:11.299 --> 00:31:12.700 are in the northeast. 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:15.639 And guess what? 00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:18.599 The largest collection 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:20.519 of these super zip codes 00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:22.639 are around Washington, D.C. 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.200 You can literally draw 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:27.060 a straight line 00:31:27.060 --> 00:31:27.980 of affluence 00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:29.600 from western 00:31:29.600 --> 00:31:30.600 Howard County, 00:31:30.820 --> 00:31:31.160 Maryland, 00:31:31.320 --> 00:31:32.060 all the way down 00:31:32.060 --> 00:31:32.920 to northern Virginia. 00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:33.880 And, 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:34.700 and never 00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:36.580 have to come across 00:31:36.580 --> 00:31:37.960 people who are 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:38.759 in poverty 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:40.140 unless you choose to. 00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:42.420 So, 00:31:42.620 --> 00:31:42.780 my, 00:31:42.820 --> 00:31:43.600 my point 00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:44.940 in this 00:31:44.940 --> 00:31:45.460 is that, 00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:45.680 right, 00:31:46.120 --> 00:31:46.980 the ghettoization 00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:47.680 of humanity 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.060 is not simply 00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:49.880 ethnic 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:51.200 and racial, 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:52.720 it's socioeconomic 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:53.400 as well. 00:31:54.600 --> 00:31:55.260 And that, 00:31:55.520 --> 00:31:57.500 that says something 00:31:57.500 --> 00:31:58.880 to those of us 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:00.520 who are believers 00:32:00.520 --> 00:32:02.700 in and around 00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:03.720 Washington, D.C. 00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:04.800 Like, 00:32:04.860 --> 00:32:05.860 how do we press 00:32:05.860 --> 00:32:06.260 against, 00:32:06.560 --> 00:32:07.260 how do we think 00:32:07.260 --> 00:32:07.960 about pressing 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:09.580 against the ghettoization 00:32:09.580 --> 00:32:10.320 of humanity 00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:11.700 not just 00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:12.780 ethnically, 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.000 not just racially, 00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:17.100 but socioeconomically 00:32:17.100 --> 00:32:17.720 as well? 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:19.339 what does it look like 00:32:19.339 --> 00:32:20.799 for us to embrace 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:21.880 the discomfort 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:24.380 of pursuing 00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:26.539 beautiful community 00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:29.299 around lines 00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:30.539 of economic 00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:31.660 difference? 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:33.519 Because that can often 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.519 be more challenging 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.700 than race 00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:38.279 and ethnicity. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.180 More and more 00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:43.079 families 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:44.440 live either 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:45.559 in uniformly 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:46.880 affluent neighborhoods 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.580 or in uniformly 00:32:48.580 --> 00:32:49.680 poor neighborhoods, 00:32:49.780 --> 00:32:50.460 the article said. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.920 So while race-based 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:52.360 segregation 00:32:52.360 --> 00:32:53.340 has been slowly 00:32:53.340 --> 00:32:53.980 declining, 00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:55.200 class-based 00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:55.800 segregation 00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:57.040 has been increasing. 00:32:58.960 --> 00:32:59.340 And 00:32:59.340 --> 00:33:00.940 this goes back 00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:01.340 again, 00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:01.600 right, 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:02.260 in the ancient 00:33:02.260 --> 00:33:02.840 world, 00:33:03.580 --> 00:33:03.860 right, 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.580 the book, 00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:07.060 the TNT 00:33:07.060 --> 00:33:07.960 handbook 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.180 for social 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:09.700 identity 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:10.800 in the New Testament. 00:33:11.500 --> 00:33:12.320 One of the authors 00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:13.740 makes the point 00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:16.700 that ethnicity 00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:18.359 and differentiation 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:20.519 was there 00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:21.359 in the ancient 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:21.880 world 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:22.859 as well 00:33:22.859 --> 00:33:24.620 as a powerful 00:33:24.620 --> 00:33:25.279 expression 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:26.799 of the apparently 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:27.460 pervasive 00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:28.599 human impulse 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:29.900 towards social 00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:31.620 categorization 00:33:31.620 --> 00:33:32.900 and differentiation, 00:33:33.420 --> 00:33:33.579 right? 00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:34.359 Israel 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:36.339 saw itself 00:33:36.339 --> 00:33:36.660 as 00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:37.460 Halaos, 00:33:37.539 --> 00:33:38.099 the people. 00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:39.579 And then 00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:40.680 everybody else, 00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:41.180 the non, 00:33:41.180 --> 00:33:42.880 all non-Israelites 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:44.440 were the 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:44.880 ethne, 00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:46.660 the way we get 00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:47.140 the word 00:33:47.140 --> 00:33:48.220 ethnic from, 00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:48.440 right? 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:49.400 That everybody, 00:33:49.620 --> 00:33:50.539 if you were not 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:51.340 an Israelite, 00:33:51.580 --> 00:33:52.140 you were an 00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:52.480 ethne, 00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.279 right? 00:33:53.380 --> 00:33:53.960 And so, 00:33:54.100 --> 00:33:54.920 so they began 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:55.900 to live 00:33:55.900 --> 00:33:57.080 as if 00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:58.560 God chose 00:33:58.560 --> 00:33:59.140 them because 00:33:59.140 --> 00:33:59.779 they were 00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:00.580 Halaos. 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:01.940 They were the 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:02.340 people, 00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:03.840 so God chose 00:34:03.840 --> 00:34:04.080 them. 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:05.600 When God says, 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:06.299 no, 00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:06.460 no, 00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:06.640 no, 00:34:06.840 --> 00:34:07.759 I didn't 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:08.760 choose you 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.240 because you 00:34:09.240 --> 00:34:09.760 were special, 00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:10.720 right? 00:34:11.160 --> 00:34:11.820 Matter of fact, 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.280 you were 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:13.800 the least 00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:14.240 among the 00:34:14.240 --> 00:34:14.540 peoples, 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:15.840 but I set 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:16.300 my love 00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:16.860 on you 00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:17.520 for you 00:34:17.520 --> 00:34:17.980 to be an 00:34:17.980 --> 00:34:18.480 example 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.720 to the rest 00:34:19.720 --> 00:34:20.080 of the 00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:20.480 nations. 00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:21.340 And so 00:34:21.340 --> 00:34:21.700 this is 00:34:21.700 --> 00:34:22.120 old, 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:22.820 this is 00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:24.520 ancient. 00:34:24.720 --> 00:34:25.300 I wish I had 00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:25.780 time to play 00:34:25.780 --> 00:34:25.960 this, 00:34:26.020 --> 00:34:26.460 but I don't. 00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:29.480 I'm not 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:29.840 going to play 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.020 it. 00:34:31.220 --> 00:34:31.800 I am 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:32.420 playing it, 00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:32.920 but I'm 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:33.140 going to 00:34:33.140 --> 00:34:33.660 skip it. 00:34:36.580 --> 00:34:37.060 All right, 00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:37.800 all right, 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.700 I'll play it. 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:38.920 All right, 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:39.260 can you go 00:34:39.260 --> 00:34:39.460 back? 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:41.300 All right, 00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:41.900 so this is 00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:42.440 kind of how 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:42.820 it works. 00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:43.960 So I'm 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:44.960 going to end 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:45.420 here, 00:34:45.600 --> 00:34:45.920 all right? 00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:46.760 We'll end 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:46.960 here. 00:34:47.780 --> 00:34:48.660 This is a 00:34:48.660 --> 00:34:50.660 song called 00:34:50.660 --> 00:34:51.100 Home, 00:34:52.040 --> 00:34:53.060 and what 00:34:53.060 --> 00:34:53.640 I'm trying 00:34:53.640 --> 00:34:53.980 to get 00:34:53.980 --> 00:34:54.860 at in 00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:56.800 playing this 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:57.460 little clip 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.060 is to 00:35:00.060 --> 00:35:00.740 embrace 00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:04.340 as a 00:35:04.340 --> 00:35:04.960 good thing 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:06.520 the tension 00:35:06.520 --> 00:35:08.060 that comes 00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:08.739 with pursuing 00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:09.219 beautiful 00:35:09.219 --> 00:35:09.840 community, 00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:11.400 that it's 00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:11.920 going to 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:12.380 seem 00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:13.559 disorienting. 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:14.900 It's going 00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:15.500 to seem 00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:17.340 disorienting 00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:18.539 when you 00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:19.039 say we've 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:19.639 got to get 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:20.059 out of 00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:20.900 these kinds 00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:21.579 of comfort 00:35:21.579 --> 00:35:21.880 zones, 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:22.199 and we've 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:22.480 got to 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:23.259 seek the 00:35:23.259 --> 00:35:24.440 Lord for 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.000 our communion 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:28.619 to better 00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:29.840 reflect his 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:30.219 kingdom 00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:30.719 vision, 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:31.579 right? 00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:32.579 home. 00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:33.840 The name 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:34.079 of this 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:34.519 song is 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:34.880 Home. 00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:36.900 So I'll 00:35:36.900 --> 00:35:37.380 put all my 00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:37.779 cards on 00:35:37.779 --> 00:35:38.099 the table. 00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:38.579 This is a 00:35:38.579 --> 00:35:39.480 song that 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:39.799 was written 00:35:39.799 --> 00:35:40.299 by my 00:35:40.299 --> 00:35:40.840 son, my 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.480 second-born 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.679 son, over 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.779 his project 00:35:44.779 --> 00:35:45.400 that he did 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:46.159 sophomore year 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.980 in college 00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.420 called I 00:35:47.420 --> 00:35:47.880 Heard God 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:48.279 Laughing. 00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:48.719 So this 00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:50.079 song is 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:51.219 about there's 00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:51.739 no place 00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:52.400 like home. 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:53.360 I want to 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:53.739 be, right? 00:35:53.759 --> 00:35:54.299 I'm away. 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.039 I want to 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:55.440 be back 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:55.920 home, 00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:56.500 right? 00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:57.900 And my 00:35:57.900 --> 00:35:59.380 daughter is 00:35:59.380 --> 00:35:59.880 singing the 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:00.800 background vocals 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.739 on it. 00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:04.119 And what the 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:04.599 clip I'm 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:05.579 playing is of 00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:06.139 my oldest 00:36:06.139 --> 00:36:07.079 son, who's 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:07.440 doing a 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:08.000 spoken word 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:08.320 piece. 00:36:08.420 --> 00:36:08.880 This is the 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:09.099 clip. 00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:09.539 And so 00:36:09.539 --> 00:36:10.679 this is, 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:11.400 he is 00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:12.400 talking about 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:14.719 his challenge 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:16.260 as a 00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:17.139 young black 00:36:17.139 --> 00:36:18.320 man in 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:18.800 America, 00:36:19.699 --> 00:36:20.840 and the 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:21.260 way it 00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:21.780 creates a 00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:22.619 tension with 00:36:22.619 --> 00:36:23.679 him for 00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:24.320 the faith. 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:25.340 And so he 00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:26.300 is at a 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:28.060 church that's 00:36:28.060 --> 00:36:29.240 majority white 00:36:29.240 --> 00:36:30.019 congregation 00:36:30.019 --> 00:36:30.519 where he 00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:31.140 is, and 00:36:31.140 --> 00:36:31.580 he has 00:36:31.580 --> 00:36:32.180 these struggles. 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:32.720 And so 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:33.980 part of the 00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.280 question is 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:34.860 how do we 00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:36.019 embrace this 00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:36.780 kind of 00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:39.800 tension in 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:40.320 communities? 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:40.720 All right, 00:36:41.100 --> 00:36:41.840 I'll play 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:42.200 this. 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:43.539 What I 00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:43.860 should have 00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:44.760 done is 00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:45.340 given you 00:36:45.340 --> 00:36:46.300 the lyrics 00:36:46.300 --> 00:36:47.840 to have in 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:48.460 your bulletin, 00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:49.140 but I 00:36:49.140 --> 00:36:49.380 forgot. 00:36:49.560 --> 00:36:49.820 So you 00:36:49.820 --> 00:36:50.200 just got to 00:36:50.200 --> 00:36:50.440 listen, 00:36:50.580 --> 00:36:50.860 all right? 00:36:56.300 --> 00:37:01.580 perhaps home 00:37:01.580 --> 00:37:02.360 is not a 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:02.840 place, 00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:04.760 but simply 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:06.060 an irrevocable 00:37:06.060 --> 00:37:06.760 condition. 00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:08.660 James Baldwin. 00:37:10.100 --> 00:37:10.680 Today, 00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.200 it appears 00:37:12.200 --> 00:37:12.900 that the only 00:37:12.900 --> 00:37:13.860 peace this 00:37:13.860 --> 00:37:14.480 home can 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:15.580 achieve is 00:37:15.580 --> 00:37:16.600 underneath the 00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:17.260 ground as 00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:18.019 opposed to 00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:18.600 above it. 00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:20.660 Perhaps that 00:37:20.660 --> 00:37:21.240 was the 00:37:21.240 --> 00:37:22.000 original content. 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:23.400 we are 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:24.179 nothing but 00:37:24.179 --> 00:37:24.539 us, 00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.340 after all, 00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:26.440 fallen creatures 00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:27.179 suddenly 00:37:27.179 --> 00:37:28.059 degenerating 00:37:28.059 --> 00:37:28.679 until we 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:29.300 become a 00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:29.980 whisper in 00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:30.380 the wind. 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:31.800 A missing 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.239 speech 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:32.900 editor in 00:37:32.900 --> 00:37:33.699 Florida. 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:35.079 A missing 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:35.500 freedom 00:37:35.500 --> 00:37:36.159 writer in 00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:36.500 Texas. 00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:37.820 A missing 00:37:37.820 --> 00:37:38.659 body in a 00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:39.159 wedding in 00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:39.639 New York. 00:37:40.300 --> 00:37:40.739 A missing 00:37:40.739 --> 00:37:42.059 genius in a 00:37:42.059 --> 00:37:43.000 college classroom 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:43.639 in Missouri. 00:37:44.380 --> 00:37:44.840 A missing 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:45.800 explorer on 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:46.360 the playground 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:47.260 in Ohio. 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:48.760 When every 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:49.619 stunt is a 00:37:49.619 --> 00:37:49.980 criminal 00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:50.559 offense. 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:51.659 When every 00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:51.980 breath is 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:52.719 considered 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:53.300 an evil 00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:53.780 substance 00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:54.199 and your 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:55.239 country is 00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:55.840 more quick 00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:56.500 to mourn 00:37:56.500 --> 00:37:57.039 the death 00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:57.960 of a lion 00:37:57.960 --> 00:37:58.420 than your 00:37:58.420 --> 00:37:59.159 own people, 00:37:59.320 --> 00:37:59.900 you can't 00:37:59.900 --> 00:38:00.639 help but 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:01.460 question the 00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:02.119 carpenter's 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:02.579 games. 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:03.780 How this 00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:04.599 whole comes 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:05.139 with the 00:38:05.139 --> 00:38:05.760 understanding 00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:06.219 that you 00:38:06.219 --> 00:38:07.059 will always 00:38:07.059 --> 00:38:07.639 be your 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:08.059 own, 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:09.420 alone, 00:38:10.099 --> 00:38:10.619 that you 00:38:10.619 --> 00:38:11.280 are always 00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:12.119 deserving of 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:12.679 the moment, 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:13.880 the way, 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.119 the water, 00:38:15.619 --> 00:38:16.760 the non-consensual, 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.179 whether there 00:38:17.179 --> 00:38:17.840 ever comes a 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:18.420 day from the 00:38:18.420 --> 00:38:19.119 perpetrators 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:19.920 work a fluid 00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:20.900 system that 00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:21.360 is rooted 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:22.099 and relegating 00:38:22.099 --> 00:38:22.700 you to the 00:38:22.700 --> 00:38:23.079 pressure, 00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:23.680 you must 00:38:23.680 --> 00:38:24.380 forgive, 00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:26.039 and forgive, 00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.140 and forgive, 00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:28.019 and forgive. 00:38:29.099 --> 00:38:30.240 Where is the 00:38:30.240 --> 00:38:31.140 joy in that? 00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:32.860 What is 00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:33.960 existence under 00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:34.539 perpetual 00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:35.140 threat? 00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:37.079 What truly is 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:38.360 home underneath 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:39.019 the burden 00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:39.880 of inevitable 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:40.420 death? 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:42.039 It must be 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:42.740 nice to never 00:38:42.740 --> 00:38:43.280 have to think 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:43.940 about that. 00:38:44.740 --> 00:38:45.579 If only people 00:38:45.579 --> 00:38:45.880 loved the 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:46.380 friend of 00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:47.160 gray just as 00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:48.059 much as they 00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:48.440 loved the 00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:48.740 white, 00:38:48.739 --> 00:38:49.739 white, 00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:50.479 only people 00:38:50.479 --> 00:38:51.459 loved John 00:38:51.459 --> 00:38:52.359 Crawford just 00:38:52.359 --> 00:38:53.279 as much as 00:38:53.279 --> 00:38:53.679 they loved 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:54.159 their right 00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:54.539 to bear 00:38:54.539 --> 00:38:55.039 arms, 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.579 and only 00:38:55.579 --> 00:38:56.199 people 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:56.979 loved the 00:38:56.979 --> 00:38:57.539 gray's 00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:58.439 melanin just 00:38:58.439 --> 00:38:59.419 as much as 00:38:59.419 --> 00:38:59.899 they loved 00:38:59.899 --> 00:39:00.679 his music. 00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.619 I'm sorry 00:39:02.619 --> 00:39:03.199 that you feel 00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:03.859 guilty for the 00:39:03.859 --> 00:39:04.479 home you were 00:39:04.479 --> 00:39:05.059 born into. 00:39:05.799 --> 00:39:06.319 I'm sorry 00:39:06.319 --> 00:39:07.099 that you believe 00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:07.519 that you're 00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:08.119 blamed for 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:08.539 everything. 00:39:09.319 --> 00:39:09.819 I'm sorry 00:39:09.819 --> 00:39:10.279 that you 00:39:10.279 --> 00:39:11.319 maybe know 00:39:11.319 --> 00:39:11.939 or have 00:39:11.939 --> 00:39:12.479 a black 00:39:12.479 --> 00:39:12.959 friend, 00:39:13.619 --> 00:39:14.159 a black 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:14.819 child, 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:15.859 and will 00:39:15.859 --> 00:39:16.319 support 00:39:16.319 --> 00:39:17.059 Black Lives 00:39:17.059 --> 00:39:17.659 Matter as 00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:18.500 long as 00:39:18.500 --> 00:39:19.079 it does not 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:19.619 make you 00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:20.259 uncomfortable. 00:39:21.379 --> 00:39:22.199 I'm sorry 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:22.579 that you 00:39:22.579 --> 00:39:23.259 consider us 00:39:23.259 --> 00:39:23.960 ungrateful 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.159 if only all 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:26.739 conditions 00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:27.639 were created 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:28.839 for people. 00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:38.960 There you 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.739 know this 00:39:39.739 --> 00:39:40.279 act 00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:40.759 well 00:39:40.759 --> 00:39:41.059 for 00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:41.679 life 00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:42.219 ever 00:39:42.219 --> 00:39:42.679 come 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.480 all 00:39:45.480 --> 00:40:01.639 right. 00:40:03.299 --> 00:40:03.940 So, 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:04.899 now, 00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:05.739 the whole 00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:06.099 song 00:40:06.099 --> 00:40:07.839 kind of 00:40:07.839 --> 00:40:08.359 tricks you 00:40:08.359 --> 00:40:09.419 because it's 00:40:09.419 --> 00:40:10.119 joyful 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:11.159 and up 00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:13.299 and upbeat 00:40:13.299 --> 00:40:13.859 all the 00:40:13.859 --> 00:40:14.139 way up 00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:14.500 to that 00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:14.859 and then 00:40:14.859 --> 00:40:15.819 it switches. 00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:18.279 But, 00:40:18.539 --> 00:40:18.739 right, 00:40:18.799 --> 00:40:19.279 this kind 00:40:19.279 --> 00:40:19.399 of, 00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:20.119 if we're 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:20.279 going to 00:40:20.279 --> 00:40:20.799 pursue 00:40:20.799 --> 00:40:22.940 beautiful 00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:23.739 community, 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:24.739 right, 00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:25.699 and we're, 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:27.679 you have 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:28.059 to be 00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:28.859 willing to 00:40:28.859 --> 00:40:30.339 step into 00:40:30.339 --> 00:40:31.139 that kind 00:40:31.139 --> 00:40:31.940 of discomfort, 00:40:32.899 --> 00:40:33.179 right, 00:40:33.279 --> 00:40:34.859 to say, 00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:35.920 all right, 00:40:36.219 --> 00:40:37.940 I need 00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:38.579 to learn 00:40:38.579 --> 00:40:40.679 from you, 00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:41.239 right, 00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:44.019 I need 00:40:44.019 --> 00:40:45.059 my preconceived 00:40:45.059 --> 00:40:45.779 notions, 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:47.000 and we 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:47.539 all have 00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:47.819 them, 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:48.019 right, 00:40:48.059 --> 00:40:48.400 to be 00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:49.079 challenged, 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:49.380 I need 00:40:49.380 --> 00:40:49.639 to be 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:50.139 open 00:40:50.139 --> 00:40:51.279 to that 00:40:51.279 --> 00:40:52.420 challenge, 00:40:53.219 --> 00:40:53.900 I need 00:40:53.900 --> 00:40:54.440 to 00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:57.279 engage 00:40:57.279 --> 00:40:58.480 particularly 00:40:58.480 --> 00:40:59.679 across all 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:00.019 of these 00:41:00.019 --> 00:41:00.500 lines 00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:01.860 of difference 00:41:01.860 --> 00:41:02.279 and it's 00:41:02.279 --> 00:41:02.719 just going 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:02.980 to be 00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:03.699 uncomfortable, 00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:04.819 but there's, 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:05.559 but we have 00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:06.400 to trust 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:07.280 that there's 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:07.720 a great 00:41:07.720 --> 00:41:08.820 joy in 00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:09.680 it that 00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:10.099 the Lord 00:41:10.099 --> 00:41:10.519 will bring 00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:10.920 because this 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:11.200 is the 00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:11.559 work that 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:12.039 the Spirit 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:13.539 delights to 00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:13.740 do. 00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:14.420 All right, 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:15.340 stop. 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:16.200 Thanks. 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:18.200 So, 00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:18.700 yeah. 00:41:18.700 --> 00:41:18.760 Yeah. 00:41:27.940 --> 00:41:28.660 This is, 00:41:28.660 --> 00:41:29.480 this is rich, 00:41:29.820 --> 00:41:30.240 this is, 00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:31.220 this is meat, 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:31.800 you know, 00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:32.559 this is meaty 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:32.960 stuff, 00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:34.440 and one of the 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:35.139 biggest challenges 00:41:35.139 --> 00:41:36.279 in having a 00:41:36.279 --> 00:41:37.099 conversation like 00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:37.679 the conversation 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:38.239 about race in 00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:38.739 our country 00:41:38.739 --> 00:41:39.179 and in our 00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:40.759 church is, 00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:41.920 is that often 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:42.539 we have, 00:41:42.819 --> 00:41:45.440 we have the 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:46.099 experience of not 00:41:46.099 --> 00:41:46.500 even really 00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:47.059 knowing where to 00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:48.219 start or, 00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:49.059 or what we 00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:49.579 should be talking 00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:50.319 about or what 00:41:50.319 --> 00:41:50.759 it should look 00:41:50.759 --> 00:41:51.079 like. 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:51.960 The value of 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:52.679 this is that 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:53.480 this is rooting 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:53.900 that, 00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:55.679 that conversation 00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:56.339 that we all 00:41:56.339 --> 00:41:56.920 experience in 00:41:56.920 --> 00:41:57.299 different ways 00:41:57.299 --> 00:41:57.699 in our daily 00:41:57.699 --> 00:41:58.839 lives in a 00:41:58.839 --> 00:41:59.699 deep and rich 00:41:59.699 --> 00:42:00.719 biblical theological 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:01.219 vision. 00:42:01.940 --> 00:42:02.699 And so this 00:42:02.699 --> 00:42:02.980 is a great 00:42:02.980 --> 00:42:03.960 opportunity for us 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:05.159 to take some 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:05.820 of what is 00:42:05.820 --> 00:42:06.579 being laid out 00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:07.440 about what it 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:08.199 means to be 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:08.780 made in the 00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:09.619 image of God 00:42:09.619 --> 00:42:10.320 and how that 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.460 can only exist 00:42:11.460 --> 00:42:12.800 and be most 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:13.780 fully manifested 00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:15.740 through humanity 00:42:15.740 --> 00:42:16.480 as a whole, 00:42:16.940 --> 00:42:17.780 a diverse 00:42:17.780 --> 00:42:18.380 multicultural 00:42:18.380 --> 00:42:19.039 humanity, 00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:20.199 and then the 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:21.199 implications that 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:22.079 that has for 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:22.880 the way we 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:23.880 live and 00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.179 worship in 00:42:25.179 --> 00:42:25.699 our church 00:42:25.699 --> 00:42:26.079 at Church of 00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:26.420 the Advent, 00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:26.820 right? 00:42:26.860 --> 00:42:27.079 So we're 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:27.420 talking about 00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:28.800 this broad 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:30.360 eschatological 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:30.740 vision, 00:42:30.860 --> 00:42:31.400 the telos of 00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:31.800 the church 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:32.679 writ large in 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:33.199 the world, 00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:34.019 and then we're 00:42:34.019 --> 00:42:34.559 looking at how 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:34.980 that then 00:42:34.980 --> 00:42:36.079 reflects on 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:37.539 our daily 00:42:37.539 --> 00:42:38.239 life together. 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:39.619 And so if you're 00:42:39.619 --> 00:42:40.279 anything like me, 00:42:40.359 --> 00:42:41.119 when you hear 00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:41.919 stuff like this, 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:42.559 in order to 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:43.259 process it, 00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:44.239 you kind of want 00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:44.699 to talk to 00:42:44.699 --> 00:42:45.339 people about it 00:42:45.339 --> 00:42:45.739 and see what 00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:46.179 they think 00:42:46.179 --> 00:42:46.559 and bounce 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:47.379 ideas around, 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:48.019 and then you 00:42:48.019 --> 00:42:48.659 also just want 00:42:48.659 --> 00:42:49.139 to sit and 00:42:49.139 --> 00:42:49.759 think on your 00:42:49.759 --> 00:42:50.000 own. 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:50.419 And so we're 00:42:50.419 --> 00:42:50.759 going to have 00:42:50.759 --> 00:42:51.279 an opportunity 00:42:51.279 --> 00:42:51.859 for you to do 00:42:51.859 --> 00:42:52.399 both of those 00:42:52.399 --> 00:42:52.719 things. 00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:53.879 So between 00:42:53.879 --> 00:42:55.099 now and noon, 00:42:55.299 --> 00:42:55.659 we're going to 00:42:55.659 --> 00:42:56.199 invite you to get 00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:57.039 back in your 00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:57.899 discussion groups. 00:42:58.059 --> 00:42:58.559 There are some 00:42:58.559 --> 00:42:59.739 more questions for 00:42:59.739 --> 00:43:00.839 you on page 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:01.539 four in your 00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:01.860 booklet. 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:02.980 Spend some 00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:04.140 time wrestling 00:43:04.140 --> 00:43:04.640 through those 00:43:04.640 --> 00:43:05.480 questions together. 00:43:05.660 --> 00:43:06.620 Embrace whatever 00:43:06.620 --> 00:43:07.960 discomfort arises 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:09.059 and see it as a 00:43:09.059 --> 00:43:09.680 kind of holy 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:10.320 disturbance, 00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:11.200 a kind of, 00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:12.120 you know, 00:43:12.200 --> 00:43:14.180 often when God 00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:14.700 is doing his 00:43:14.700 --> 00:43:14.940 work, 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:15.440 it's not 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:15.960 comfortable. 00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:16.600 A lot of times 00:43:16.600 --> 00:43:17.180 it's surgery. 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:17.940 Surgery is not 00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:18.260 comfortable. 00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:20.380 And then around 00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:21.079 noon, we're going 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:21.519 to switch, 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:22.100 and from noon 00:43:22.100 --> 00:43:22.840 to 1230, 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:23.460 there's going 00:43:23.460 --> 00:43:23.820 to be just 00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:24.680 contemplative time. 00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:25.400 Now you could 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:26.019 use that to 00:43:26.019 --> 00:43:27.019 go to the 00:43:27.019 --> 00:43:28.400 bathroom or chat 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:28.940 with friends or 00:43:28.940 --> 00:43:29.160 whatever, 00:43:29.220 --> 00:43:29.640 and you can do 00:43:29.640 --> 00:43:30.019 that if you 00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:30.780 want, but I 00:43:30.780 --> 00:43:31.639 invite you to 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:32.320 maybe consider 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:33.019 using that time 00:43:33.019 --> 00:43:33.579 to sit somewhere 00:43:33.579 --> 00:43:34.440 by yourself 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:36.400 and just to 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.840 think, right? 00:43:37.940 --> 00:43:39.199 So there's this 00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.920 sense that we're 00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:42.420 going to stir a 00:43:42.420 --> 00:43:43.039 lot of things up 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:43.519 and then you 00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:44.159 just sit and 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:45.300 think and maybe 00:43:45.300 --> 00:43:45.940 even use that 00:43:45.940 --> 00:43:46.599 time to pray 00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:47.219 and ask the 00:43:47.219 --> 00:43:49.019 Lord to direct 00:43:49.019 --> 00:43:50.280 this toward you. 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:51.039 Ask the Lord, 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.699 what is there in 00:43:52.699 --> 00:43:53.320 this that I 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:54.539 really need to 00:43:54.539 --> 00:43:55.340 hear or wrestle 00:43:55.340 --> 00:43:55.619 with? 00:43:55.699 --> 00:43:56.139 What is there 00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:57.300 that has maybe 00:43:57.300 --> 00:43:58.300 challenged me or 00:43:58.300 --> 00:43:59.059 that I'm reacting 00:43:59.059 --> 00:43:59.579 against? 00:43:59.579 --> 00:44:00.159 What is there 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.559 that I feel 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:00.940 like I've been 00:44:00.940 --> 00:44:01.679 longing to hear 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:02.159 and nobody's 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:02.659 been saying? 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:03.599 What is there, 00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:04.099 Lord, that you 00:44:04.099 --> 00:44:05.199 have for me to 00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:06.059 chew on right 00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:07.440 now in the 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:07.880 work that he's 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:08.380 doing in your 00:44:08.380 --> 00:44:08.779 hearts? 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.679 So let's do 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:09.880 that. 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:10.599 So discussion 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:11.460 until noon and 00:44:11.460 --> 00:44:11.960 then from noon 00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:12.699 to 1230, 00:44:13.019 --> 00:44:13.920 contemplative time, 00:44:14.099 --> 00:44:14.460 and then at 00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:15.219 1230 we're all 00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:15.639 going to gather 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:16.340 in the dining 00:44:16.340 --> 00:44:17.019 hall for lunch. 00:44:17.500 --> 00:44:17.940 And then after 00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:19.000 that we have 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:19.599 things we need 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:19.880 to know, 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:20.099 right? 00:44:21.219 --> 00:44:21.739 All right, 00:44:21.779 --> 00:44:22.400 a few just 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:23.460 logistical things 00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:25.199 as we wrap up 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:25.679 this morning. 00:44:25.860 --> 00:44:26.360 So first of all, 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:26.759 if you're new, 00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:27.400 if you came to 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:34.700 the 00:44:34.700 --> 00:44:35.300 way you 00:44:35.300 --> 00:44:36.720 can accept it, 00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:37.240 and if you're 00:44:37.240 --> 00:44:38.220 going to 00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:38.780 have 00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:39.619 to 00:44:39.619 --> 00:44:42.519 take 관 00:44:42.720 --> 00:44:42.960 along, 00:44:43.019 --> 00:44:43.760 talk back to 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:44.440 the 00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:44.860 game.