You Are Responseable: Rebuilding with the Whole Gospel

Something we gotta wrestle with on our way towards getting there today though, is is this. What if while you're waiting on God, God is waiting on you? You you survey the world around you or something in your everyday life, everyday relationships, and it's broken, and it's a little like, what what gives God? Once you do your job, I'm I'm waiting. And, what if every time we're saying that, god's actually like, yeah. That's that's what I'm saying. I'm waiting on you to be responsible with your your part. [00:33:12] (32 seconds)  #GodIsWaiting

It's not just about the part where you die and get to go to heaven. And the three words I put in front of you is there's an incarnation of the gospel where Jesus gets into every corner of everyday life with you. That's how he lived. That's the gospel he gives us. He cares about every minutiae. There's an atonement to the gospel. That's the salvation of your soul and yourself. The person who you are that something's broken in there and it needs fixing, you now got a doctor that can get in there and do the fixing with you. And the third word is restoration. [00:26:26] (33 seconds)  #WholeGospel

Going back to being called by God is is little like knowing who you are all over again. Being called by God is a little like knowing, here's my place in the grand scheme of things. Why the world would be a lesser place if I didn't wake up tomorrow? So it's it's going back home. But for most of us, going back home isn't finding a dining table set and beds folded and warm fires with family follows on the mantle. It's a little like going back and finding the splinters of what used to be a dining room table, and the torn cloths that used to be a bed and the sharp glass that's supposed to be framing all those memories. [00:34:52] (40 seconds)  #CalledBackHome

And and the one thing that I could tell you in very point blank practical terms that helps you take that gospel of incarnation, atonement, and restoration wherever you go is to just be curious about how people got to where they are. Be genuinely curious. What's what's your story? How how did you arrive there? So to to to approach a woman, whether she's pro life or or or pro choice, and ask her, how did you form your commit convictions on that topic? It's an invitation to share the parts of the story that led to where she stands. Or where have you experienced women in a position without choice? [00:44:44] (44 seconds)  #BeCuriousAskTheirStory

You don't have to agree with where she's at, but to understand her, to be seen, to know a person as they are, is is the start of that incarnational gospel of I went into your everyday life. It's the opening of your story. I I'm the atonement of your soul. Like, what what what's your soul and yourself, and what what built you there? Then and only then do we talk about restoration and how how pieces come together again. That just that curiosity of how did you get to where you are? Well, let you stand with the person even if you don't stand with them in the same spot on the issue. [00:45:48] (37 seconds)  #UnderstandBeforeDebate

You you get to talk. You get to commission me. You get to say your gospel's strong enough. I I won't say that I can't, and I I won't say that I won't. I'll be the kind of person that says, king Jesus already has. So I'll start somewhere even if it's looks like a pile of rubble and I got nothing to work with. I'll find my small beginning in you. Out of a God who so loved the world that he sent his one and only son, I accept he sends the one and only unique kind of person like me. [01:00:53] (34 seconds)  #StartSomewhere

But then, they all start describing it as in these heavenly terms of there's no more tears. There's no grief. There's no pain. There's this river of life that is flowing out of Jerusalem to all the nations for its healing, and then all the nations flow back into Jerusalem to meet God. That that sounds like heaven, but the real trick is they never give us the line. Of now, I'm talking about the earth part and wait, pause, I'm gonna talk about the heaven part. It just talks about Jerusalem as one city of God, where that threshold gets crossed over to the point at which you're like, this just this must be one place with two rooms, like, right next to each other. [00:42:15] (43 seconds)  #HeavenMeetsEarth

And as a Christian, as a follower of Jesus, we have got to stop making the distinction of this is this is now and that'll be then. Which parts of the gospel can happen here and which have parts of the gospel has has to happen later in heaven? Where everything we're experiencing in the minor prophets is the kingdom of God is now. Some versions you might not see the fullest version till till a time later, but you always live like it's now, and lives are changing now, and it's being seen now, and there's hope and restoration taking place now. [00:42:58] (38 seconds)  #LiveTheKingdomNow