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Sunday, May 08, 2005 AD
God Is Not Enough
(Snippets from an article by Rich Lusk; link via Tim G)

"[Man] was not only created, as Augustine suggested, with a Trinity-shaped void in his heart that only the Father, Son, and Spirit could fill; he was also created with a human-shaped void that only other people could fill."

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"God made us in such a way that vertical fellowship with the divine would be insufficient; we also need horizontal fellowship with other humans. God did not just make us for himself, he made us for each other.

"Or, to look at things from another angle, God made the world in such a way that his presence would be mediated from one human to another....He speaks to us, disciplines us, molds us, and so forth, though the agency of others."

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"American spirituality often treats church community as a 'tacked on' extra to a personal relationship with Jesus. In other words, we often act as if God alone is enough, and other Christians were quite unnecessary. 'Quiet times,' in which the individual gets alone with God, have replaced the church’s corporate gathering as the pinnacle of spiritual growth."

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"God is our all in all. But how does God manifest his all-sufficiency towards us? Precisely through giving himself to us in one another."
 Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 5/08/2005 11:55:00 PM • • Permalink



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