Now That We Know Who We Are (Rhythms)

Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (2 of 3)

Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.