Sermon 11.11.12 :: Apocalyptic

“Mark doesn’t seem concerned about giving us an answer in the form of a theory.  ‘Pay attention to the story,’ he seems to be saying.  Live in it and allow it to shift the ground on which you’re standing.  Then maybe you won’t need a theory.” 

-        N.T. Wright

“In its dictionary meaning, apocalypse is simply ‘revelation,’ the uncovering of what was covered up so that we can see what is there.  Under the crisis of persecution and under the urgency of an imminent end, reality is revealed suddenly for what it is.  We had supposed our lives so utterly ordinary . . . Apocalypse is arson – it secretly sets a fire in the imagination that boils the fat out of an obese culture-religion.”

-        Eugene Peterson

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