Friday, January 11, 2008

Room for God when you're high



Would God speak to you while high? Or would he avoid such a situation.
Does God only talk to you when you are high? Do you need something to reach him?
Does God only come around when you are at church? Doing Good?"Doing something Bad?

Doug has me reading a book by Alan Hirsch. He said some things that I really like.

He is talking about how Christians say Jesus is Lord. If we really meant this then the natural extension is a biblical worldview that "can conceive of no part of the world that does not come under the claim of Yahweh's Lordship. All of life belongs to God, and true holiness means bringing all the spheres of our life under God."

Perhaps this quote will make it even more clear.

"If the world and all in it belongs to God, and comes under his direct claim over it in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God." !!!!!!!!!!!!"There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture."

When we "assign spirituality to the realm of the merely private and religious" (The basic practice of christendom for a long time now) "our understanding of the presence of God in all places" is damaged.
For example: "A bar is a church without God." Well actually a bar is a building with people in it, just like what most people call a church. In actuality we are the church...I am....and I work in a bar....so for me I guess a bar is a building with a church inside of it 6 days a week trying to make tartar sauce that would make God proud.

I have had a few people tell me about experiences they had with God while high on one thing or another. The most recent person was just suprised he showed up for the party. I was excited to hear about it because I want to believe that "God is everywhere and particularly loves to abide with his people."
I am not going anywhere that God already isn't.

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