LIVING IN LIGHT OF HISTORY'S GOAL (9 OF 13)
by Drew Hunter
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
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Living in Light of History's Goal (9 of 13)
Series: Until He Comes
Drew Hunter
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Hope changes us.
We don't often think about hope like this. We think about hope as a kindof wishfulness. We are uncertain about the future, but we have desires for it to be a certain way.
But hope in the Bible is much stronger than this. It is not about an uncertain happy future. It is a joyful and confident expectation.
And hope isn't just a future expectation, it's a present influence. What we hope for in the future - and what we expect to happen in the future - shapes how we live.
This text is here to give Christians true hope. And in giving them hope, it is meant to change how we live in everyday life.
The Christian hope is like the end of a good story. Because it is the en dof a good story. We are part of a story. A cosmic story. A true story that makes sense of our lives.
The Bible gives us a narrative that stretches from creation to new creation. And a central part of being a Christian is learning this story. It is learning the story that we are a part of. Learning where we're headed. Learning what role we play in the story today.
One author put it this way: ''The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, making progress... [we have a] conviction that we are on some kind of journey or quest, that there must be some deeper meaning to our lives...''
He goes on to say that when we lose our sense of a story, we lose our sense of ourselves. He writes, ''Only people who have lost the sense of adventure, mystery, and romans worry about their self-esteem. At that point what they need is not a good therapist, but a good story. Or more precisely, the central question for us should... be... 'what sort of story am I in?'''
In other words, when we miss what kind of story we're in, we don't know where we're headed. We don't have h ...
Series: Until He Comes
Drew Hunter
1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Hope changes us.
We don't often think about hope like this. We think about hope as a kindof wishfulness. We are uncertain about the future, but we have desires for it to be a certain way.
But hope in the Bible is much stronger than this. It is not about an uncertain happy future. It is a joyful and confident expectation.
And hope isn't just a future expectation, it's a present influence. What we hope for in the future - and what we expect to happen in the future - shapes how we live.
This text is here to give Christians true hope. And in giving them hope, it is meant to change how we live in everyday life.
The Christian hope is like the end of a good story. Because it is the en dof a good story. We are part of a story. A cosmic story. A true story that makes sense of our lives.
The Bible gives us a narrative that stretches from creation to new creation. And a central part of being a Christian is learning this story. It is learning the story that we are a part of. Learning where we're headed. Learning what role we play in the story today.
One author put it this way: ''The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, making progress... [we have a] conviction that we are on some kind of journey or quest, that there must be some deeper meaning to our lives...''
He goes on to say that when we lose our sense of a story, we lose our sense of ourselves. He writes, ''Only people who have lost the sense of adventure, mystery, and romans worry about their self-esteem. At that point what they need is not a good therapist, but a good story. Or more precisely, the central question for us should... be... 'what sort of story am I in?'''
In other words, when we miss what kind of story we're in, we don't know where we're headed. We don't have h ...
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