7.9 RECALIBRATE (wk1) Shaping Our World By Creative Cultivating - a podcast by George Stull

The Bible’s first idea of what it means to be human is that we've been given a calling to participate with God in the ongoing work of creation, to bring it forward, and to make something of the world we live in.

SLIDES GEORGE READ IN THE GATHERING:

Once upon a time men took into your temple the first fruits of their harvests, the flower of their flocks. But the offering you really want, the offering you mysteriously need every day to appease your hunger, to slake your thirst is nothing less than the growth of the world born ever onwards…

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Mass On The World

And our task, as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to proclaim love and trust to the world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion. The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story a worldview leading the way with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and true wisdom. 

-N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness in the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, and unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.

-L.R. Knost

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