EPISODE · Sep 18, 2023 · 31 MIN
"The Lord of Everything" (Genesis 1-2)
from RUF at UNCW · host Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message, we look at the Genesis creation account and what it says about who God is and how he relates to us. This passage shows that true human flourishing comes within the context of a personal relationship with our Creator God, as we live under God's fatherly care and commands. "The world we’ve built using technology is less and less good for the most important thing about us, which is our design for love. From the moment we come into the world, what we are most looking for, most in need of, most designed to learn to give and receive from others, is love — intimate, profound, mutual relationships of giving and receiving, even at great cost to ourselves. That is truly what love is . . . we’re all “looking for someone looking for us.” None of us were born looking for a screen. We were all born looking for a face”—Andy Crouch "Belonging necessitates limits. The question is to whom we belong. If we belong to ourselves, then we set our own limits which means we have no limits except our own will. If we belong to God, then knowing and abiding by His limits enables us to live as we were created to live, as the humans He designed us to be. Christians must be particularly careful here. Accepting limits is not the same thing as accepting that you belong to God. It's possible to obey many of God's limits and still deny that you belong to Him. . . . If these limits are freely chosen, they're still fundamentally an expression of autonomy. And that's how one can so easily belong in the contemporary church and strictly follow Christian [ethical] teachings while still being in absolute rebellion to the reality that you are not your own but belong to Christ. Christian ethics, like any morality, can be treated as a lifestyle option." - Alan Noble
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Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message, we look at the Genesis creation account and what it says about who God is and how he relates to us. This passage shows that true human flourishing comes within the context of a personal relationship with our Creator God, as we live under God's fatherly care and commands. "The world we’ve built using technology is less and less good for the most important thing about us, which is our design for love. From the moment we come into the world, what we are most looking for, most in need of, most designed to learn to give and receive from others, is love — intimate, profound, mutual relationships of giving and receiving, even at great cost to ourselves. That is truly what love is . . . we’re all “looking for someone looking for us.” None of us were born looking for a screen. We were all born looking for a face”—Andy Crouch "Belonging necessitates limits. The question is to whom we belong. If we belong to ourselves, then we set our own limits which means we have no limits except our own will. If we belong to God, then knowing and abiding by His limits enables us to live as we were created to live, as the humans He designed us to be. Christians must be particularly careful here. Accepting limits is not the same thing as accepting that you belong to God. It's possible to obey many of God's limits and still deny that you belong to Him. . . . If these limits are freely chosen, they're still fundamentally an expression of autonomy. And that's how one can so easily belong in the contemporary church and strictly follow Christian [ethical] teachings while still being in absolute rebellion to the reality that you are not your own but belong to Christ. Christian ethics, like any morality, can be treated as a lifestyle option." - Alan Noble
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