Sermon Series... The Gospel and The Stuff of Life

Sunday we begin 3 weeks looking at how we spend many of our days.... eating, working, sleeping. In doing some prep work I had some folks tell me they'd never heard eating or sleeping preached on... and i was asked how i decided to do this... i'll write more later... but this quote helped me get there

“Being "Reformed" is a style of life that gives prominence to the conviction that God is creator; hence it is that we give thanks to God for the goodness that surrounds us. Secondly, it incorporates a deep and powerful sense of the fallenness of all things, understood in such a way that there is a strong impulse to resist all attempts to draw lines in the sand, with the explanation that human fallenness occurs on this side of the line and not on that side of the line. Fallenness runs throughout our entire existence—indeed, through the cosmos.
Corresponding to this comprehensive view of sin is then an equally comprehensive view of faith and salvation... In short, I think that at the heart of the Reformed tradition is a passion for totality, for wholeness, for integrity, for not allowing life to fall into bits and pieces but to constantly ask, ‘What does my faith—what does the gospel of Jesus Christ—have do with this and what does it have to do with that?’ And then never being content with the answer, ‘Nothing!’”

--Nick Wolterstorff