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The Shift in Our World
"Come Follow Me . . ." words spoken by Jesus to a few fisherman.
"Come
Follow Me . . ." the same words are echoed to us today.
It's not that we need to figure it out--answer
all the questions of God or even tear out on a treck for "holiness".
The following that Jesus has in mind is one that He will lead
and give power to live. It's not just a matter of religious
speak--it's the life He can only give. This following Jesus
is a life He gives us by giving His life.
To get the full impact of what this following
is--what the sacrifice Jesus alone made in our place there
is a shift that begins within us.
A SHIFT IS IN ORDER (taken from Fusion:
The Merge)
We must undergo a shift as radical as the "Copernicus Revolution". Copernicus
was the first to declare that we live in a heliocentric solar
system---the Sun lies at the center of the orbit, not the Earth
(which had been previously believed). Copernicus realized that
if the Sun were at the center of the Solar System, and the
planets revolved around the Sun, then the planets always moved
in the same direction. Copernicus knew that his idea was radical
and that it would be unpopular. Friends who heard of his discovery
pleaded with him to make his findings public. Fearing arrest
or worse punishment, Copernicus waited thirty-six years to
publish his theories. Copernicus, a Roman Catholic priest
by the end of his life, finally sent a copy of his manuscript,
entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, to a Lutheran
printer in 1543 as he was dying. The Lutheran Church did not
support a heliocentric Solar System model, but would be less
punitive than the Roman Catholic Church. Copernicus
received his published book back from the printer on May 24,
1543 -- the last day of his life. His radical idea that
the planets revolved around the Sun (not the Earth), backed
up with analysis of observations, began what we call today
the Copernican Revolution.
The shift that we undergo is in realizing
that I am not the center of all of life. The world doesn't revolve around
me (or you, or our children, or the Sooners, etc.). At
the center of life is God, who is much bigger than anything
we place there. A belief in God's existence is a start. However,
we can do more than just believe in the existence of God--He
can be known---in fact, He has gone to great lengths to make
Himself known to us, His creation. It is this discovery
of God that will completely reframe our life---from a story
about us, to a narrative of Him within us .
God gets the fame, God gets the focus,
and we find what life we were made for. He alone
is at the center of all life---He is the source of all
things.
It's a shift that some say
happens in a moment, while others say it's a journey. It
may be in a decisive moment--but the journey is what reveals
the reality of this shift. We believe this journey/shift/following
of Jesus is intended to be lived out togehter--as a community.
Join with us, living out life with Jesus and for Jesus .
. . it's what we were made for.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
[The traditional form of "the
Jesus prayer" find out more.
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