I highly recommend the whole series, but the final talk is the one I've chosen to present to you here. It took me somewhere beyond just spiritual teaching. It stretched my picture of now and of the radiant future God has been planning since before the beginning of time.
Over the past week, I've been watching a series from the 2014 Keswick Convention. Presented by Vaughan Roberts, the series looks at the book of Romans to help address some of the key questions of life: What has gone wrong with the world? How can I get right with God? Who am I? How can I change? and, last but certainly not least, What hope is there?
I highly recommend the whole series, but the final talk is the one I've chosen to present to you here. It took me somewhere beyond just spiritual teaching. It stretched my picture of now and of the radiant future God has been planning since before the beginning of time. I seem to be finding a number of talks lately that speak powerfully into the contrast between the current world view and the message of the gospel. As I mentioned previously, some of this makes me squirm. It challenges many ideas that I was raised with, but most importantly (this is the squirming part), it challenges the life view still firmly held by most of my loved ones. All this seemed relatively benign to me until some years back, when the Lord began to call me aside to a deeper relationship with Himself.
Several days ago I discovered a remarkable message on this subject, delivered last year to a group of Christian workers by a man by the name of Vaughan Roberts. He is rector of a church in Oxford and director of an organization called The Proclamation Trust, whose stated mission is to "[promote] the work of biblical expository preaching in the UK and further afield." Speaking on the book of Revelation, Roberts calls upon listeners to choose which voice they will listen to: the voice of the age, or the voice of the Lord. I feel obliged to add an editorial comment before directing you to the video. While it is certainly true that the world will and in many ways already does reject Christians who dare to renounce the voice of the age, there are ALSO people out there these days claiming to be Christians who are spreading actual hate messages. This is having a highly damaging effect; these are clearly not the people he is speaking of here. Here is the video. May the Lord use it to His own perfect purposes. |
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