What is the meaning of life?
Genesis 1
Big Ideas
- This is Hebrew poetry
- Modern christianity doesn’t know what to do with the resurrection
- When we divorce physical and spiritual life, we don’t have any use for resurrection
- We call death “life”, pretend it’s not a bad thing
- Contemporary Christian Music is sunshine and rainbows, the only theme is victory
- Secularism is YOLO, there is no spiritual life, so nothing matters
- Real life is EMBODIED
- God loves “stuff” so much that he became stuff
- God rested on Day 7 because he was done
- Real life is embodied communion with God
- Our dominion means that we are here to create order out of chaos, to steward and help everything here flourish, and in doing so, experience delight-filled communion with God
- God is ALL IN ALL
- We’ve stripped God from the world
Implications
- Stuff matters. Bodies matter.
- Love our neighbors. Glory in diversity. Fight for justice.
- Your life is sacred, God is meeting you there
- God meet us in the ordinary
- Our world matters. We need to protect it.
- The cosmos are groaning for resurrection
- Spiritual life is really embodied
Questions
- What are things in your life that feel like they show separation of spiritual and physical life?
- What’s something that you feel spiritual or physical life doesn’t apply to?
- What is a part of your week where you struggle to feel connected to God?
- What’s an ordinary activity that you wish you could feel communion with God while doing it?
- Is everything actually spiritual?
- Does everything physical really matter to God?
- What would change for you if this was true?
