Heaven and Earth meet (Essentials Blue Fall 08)

“For: The Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephens University, Essentials Blue Online Theology Course with DAN WILT”

One of the things more impacting about the reading of N.T Wright’s book “Simply Christian” is when he says Heaven “is not just a future reality”, wow. For me this is so profound because Heaven is not just that place were we will go someday, but it is a present reality. God wants to meet with us right now. Yes,We are his temple, but His desire is that there will be an overlapping. N.T describes in p.64 how we see this in the Bible, ex: Abraham keeps meeting God, Jacob sees a ladder between Heaven and Earth, Moses discovers he is standing on Holy ground, etc. When I read this there is a thought that comes to my mind: ” Lord, please do that with me”, ” would you please do something like that as I am leading worship?”.  I think our desire to is meet God like that.

Another amazing thing about this chapters of the book, is when it says: ” The Kingdom of God is about bringing the things of God to earth”, this is great and so true. I am so blessed and encourage d to keep going. I am so encouraged  because I want people to hear about that ” rescue” of Jesus to us on earth,  this is because He loves so much.

God Creator, God is a big God! like Dan said in the video,, can you imagine what it takes to create the Universe? but God took the time to do it, wow. As we lead worship, we are opening something, a meting place between  God and people. God as King, He deserves the worship because of the things He has done, starting from the creation, when we worship we proclaim that his Kingdom prevails over everything, this is our alliance to him. God as Trinity, this attribute shows me He is community, He is relational, it is not just about himself, but about making us feel involve with him, this is because He loves us so much. It is not about a social status: Jesus went to visit the poor and the rich, He loves everyone. God as Savior, He wants to safe what was lost, He wanted to safe the broken world, This is about the God who acted, He suffered and gave his life for us. “God is seeking for us, we are not the seekers”.

Thank you guys so much, thank you for your comments, it is like eating something together, it’s been very enriching to see the wisdom of others, keep it up guys. I will make sure to post a video next time.

1. NT Wright, Simply Christian, Part 2, Staring at the Sun ( pg.52- 140)

2. iTunes U Others Audio/ Video, Don Williams ( Who is the God we worship)

3. Williams & Brown,  Who is the God we worship? (IW Master All, p.282)

4. Wilt, Essentials in Worship Theology ( Section2)

5. Eddie Gibbs, Time in a bottle ( IW Master All, p.250)

6. iTunes U e*b Video, Wilt, Essential Worship Theology: God as Creator, King, Trinity and Savior.