The Naked Truth
23 03 2008Today was a great Sunday… Resurrection Sunday is like the Christian "Super Bowl"… The message was entitled "The Naked Truth" and we spoke about the transition from transparency to a lack of transparency in Adam and Eve and How Jesus reversed the trend when he became transparent through his resurrection.
Often times, we find it difficult to come clean before the Lord, and we find ourselves hiding behind who we are trying to be instead of being who we really are. This can cause so many problems when we go through life trying to be someone that we are not…
My challenge today was to be transparent and come clean and flow in the same authority that Jesus did as he got up from the dead…
As always, if you have any questions, or comments about today’s service, feel free to sound off in the comments…
THe faces on our visitors when you started in Genesis was like “wait, isn’t the Easter story in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John…..” It was exciting….I believe the message was fresh and changed the lives of many….and their thinking too.
This message applied to my life again recently. I was engaged in a conversation with a friend who spoke about women sticking with their men through “thick and thin” and I had disagreed to the extent that sometimes, friends fall out not because they don’t care about the person who is having troubled times, but because they have grown is such disparate direction. You can only help someone so much…when they are not willing to help themselves. Somehow he got onto Adam and Eve in the garden… in so many words he blamed women (EVE) for the sins of this world. I was able to reply well informed thanks to this service. I was able to speak to Adam’s involvement and their inability to be naked in the garden. Unfortunately, my friend was unable to accept “male” accountability and refused to hear about how Adam did not stick with Eve throught “thick and thin” when he blamed her and called her out before GOD. I have noticed such strong opposition from men when I attempt to speak about equality between men and women. The power differential continues to dangerously exist and is backed by so much anger that I not only feel unheard and exhausted, but threatened and intimadated. My voice is lost to the stronger, more powerful voice of the resisting men in my world. How can I reach out to loved ones so that they might begin to consider the implications of their oppressive tendencies with compassion and empathy rather than fear and anger?