Prisoners of Hope 5: Why God is Not Into the Throwaway Culture - Zechariah 8

By our house, there's a tailor. An elderly woman who works long hours. I was walking the dog at 9:30 last night and there she was on a Saturday night, not even watching the Blue Jays game, repairing clothes. What makes this woman amazing is that she totally runs against the tide of fast fashion or throwaway culture. She'll fix anything. And she takes delight in it. What I want to talk about here today is why God is not into the throwaway culture. The clothing and phones and technology are not so important but something of that seeps into our hearts and affects how we think about God and ourselves and relationships. It affects how we think about life. We are in our Zechariah series called The Prisoners of Hope, a phrase that comes out of Zechariah. God calls us prisoners of hope because we're in a place that you cannot but hope, because of God. Today we will read from Zechariah 8 and think together about why God is not into the throwaway culture.Extra reading: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21Preacher: Bill Dyck