Renew Communities Teaching Podcast

There’s always tension in waiting. There’s a very specific tension that comes in our awaiting the arrival of Jesus - but it’s often not what you think. Part of what creates such a deep longing for the coming of Jesus is what a mess the world has become. The tension comes when we recognize that we’ve helped make the mess. It’s like Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt says “Anyone whose attention is fixed on the coming reign of God… will become more and more aware that there exists a universal wrongness that is pulled over us like a choking, suffocating blanket.” This is why part of “preparing the way of the Lord” is repentance. In week 3 we looked at the part we’ve played in creating the mess and the hope we could have in this savior’s arrival.