Cross Vision

Perspective

So, how is your vision doing?  When was the last time you had it checked?

If you are someone who has, or think that you have, good vision, it probably rarely occurs to you that getting it checked in a good idea.  Most of those who actually wear corrective lenses however, can tell stories of how they thought their vision was fine, until something happened that caused them to question that . . . and then when they finally did make it in to get it checked, and ultimately received their first pair of corrective lenses, they were amazed at how much clearer everything looked!  Typically, they are also amazed at how they could have gone so long without having realized it!

In the sermon this week, Pastor Ken explores the metaphors of sight and vision, noticing how Jesus, through His life, and particularly through the cross, provides both the light we need to see by, and the corrective lenses we need in order to see.  

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(Book Referenced in the Sermon:  Gregory A. Boyd, Cross Vision, Fortress Press, 2017)

John 1:1-14

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth

1 Corinthians 2:2-8

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2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified . . . 

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.