Embracing the Kairos: Our Journey with Jesus

Mar 09, 2025

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"We literally do not have all the answers. We are convinced we were made for life with Jesus. But what that looks like is pretty tough. And so we need each other to help each other along. And life itself is pretty hard. And the best thing we got going in our church isn't what happens up here. The best thing we got going on is what's happening with each other, with you guys being able to be together in life and community and walking together and picking each other up." [00:26:16] (21 seconds)




"The moment we lose our curiosity about Jesus, about the great mystery of God in some way or another, we're actually maybe stopping our own growth. It is crucial that we continue to have questions, no matter where you are in your faith. But maybe you're a person who's like, I cannot yet really fully kind of embrace this idea. And maybe you're just wondering so many questions. And let me just ask you, this is as directly as a reflective question as I could ask, just what else am I waiting for then?" [00:54:40] (27 seconds)


"One of the things that's been enormously helpful for people is to get in a discussion group with people who also have a lot of questions. We have a group that we lead that it'll start again after Easter called Alpha. Alpha is just a place for people who have these kinds of questions to go, am I allowed to ask this question? The answer is yes, you're allowed to ask this question. And then it's a discussion about exactly what that might look like." [00:56:29] (20 seconds)


"There is a tendency for people who have been followers of Jesus for a long time to assume that it's their responsibility to bring about the healing of other people. It is not. It is not. That's not the responsibility. It's not theirs to bear. It is only Jesus who brings about the healing. Now, to you people who fit that category of like, I think Jesus has something to do with restoring or repairing or bringing back together." [00:58:15] (24 seconds)

"The whole world is a deep, there's a deep spiritual longing in the world. And with grace and with mercy and compassion, we look at the world and go, every single person in the world will fill their deep spiritual longing with the most accessible, most available thing that they've got. There is a longing in the world and everybody in the world will simply find the most accessible and most available thing they have to try to fill it." [00:59:41] (25 seconds)


"Live such good lives among the pagans that though they accuse you of doing wrong. A couple of things to think about really quickly. The word pagans, only in a couple of translations of the Bible and the English translations do you have the word pagans. It's the word, in Greek, it's the word ethnikos. It's where we get words like ethnicities. It just means all of the people who aren't Jewish. That's all that that means." [01:03:14] (16 seconds)


"That Jesus' ultimate work of restoration was the restoration of people and their, back to the Father by dealing with their sin. And so on the cross, Jesus took upon himself all of the things that separated human beings from their, their father and he put them to death that they might walk with him to be restored. In fact, And every so often when the church would get together, they would practice this remembering of this practice." [01:10:29] (28 seconds)


"Father, you have met us in our weakness and in our sorrow. And Father, for all of us that are longing and searching to try to figure out how to get our act together, Father, you come to us and say, let me take care of that. Don't worry about your act. I meet people where they are. Father, would you meet us where we are today? Some of us having been brought, not sure what it means." [01:14:45] (24 seconds)


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