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In Right Relationship...

[from Ravi Zacharias Ministries...]

God is the basis of all reality. Thus, what He is like in his being and through his activity should provide an adequate explanation for all that we see and experience. The Bible attests that God is holy and He is a relational being. Yet in the amazing providence of God, He stands revealed not in platitudes and abstract universals, but in a breathtaking narrative recorded for us in the Bible that outlines his encounter with his people in creation and redemption history.

Similarly, we are born to our parents and we grow in our understanding of ourselves as we learn to relate to parents, siblings, and friends. Simply put, I can’t be me without someone else; you can’t be you without reference to someone else. What makes a person a person is her (or his) capability of interpersonal relationship. In fact, we derive our most fundamental sense of identity by relating to God and other human beings. Moreover, the identity that we seek from impersonal entities such as achievement, fame, pleasure, and possessions--the hallmarks of today’s consumerist, shopping-mall existence--can be extremely inadequate and frustrating.

It is probably not very surprising that in this rather lonely environment, the Christian pursuit of worship has been made a purely individualistic endeavor. A lack of Trinitarian thinking and preaching has exacerbated the prevailing individualism of our culture and has brought it right into our Christian life and practice. If we do not think of God as a relational being in Himself, we cannot appreciate the point that we are made to reflect his image in our relationships with one another. We need to depend on one another to help us comprehend the majesty and love of God and respond in true worship as a community (Ephesians 3:14-21).

Indeed... [continued at RZIM.org]

posted by IndyChristian @ 12:38 PM