"Drops Like Stars Tour" by Rob Bell
There are things we all need to hear.
We've been in the rooms and the hallways, going up and down. Going on an up and down rollercoaster.
~The story of the two brothers in the Bible who wanted their fathers inheritance. (Dad, I want your money and you to be dead). Prodigal Son Parable
-"You have always been with me and I never really payed attention. Everything I have is yours."
-"I once was lost but now i'm found, was blind but now I see." - Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
*This story gives us many kinds of backgrounds: religious, cultural, etc.
*We sometimes hve things unresolved. It just happens that way because God has it that was or maybe as people that's how we want it. Maybe sometimes we aren't ready for something to be resolved.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
If we set aside the why and ask other questions lets just say...it happend, it's there, it's unresolved, so lets fix it!
-The art of the disruption:
*College question answer (crazy answer)
*Ballet (instead of the program, how about a squirrel)
*City/cd thing
*Death by wallpaper and flooring story instead of diagnosed thing...etc.
It is, so what now?
-The What (the context)
-The Where (the content)
*We always plan for tomorrow...we try to plan HOW things are supposed to go but then there's a disruption. What we planned ends up not being there.
-we never IMAGINED that would happen.
**None get to God but through trouble**
-It's the ART of the DISRUPTION
*In a way, a man having everything...really doesn't have everything...the life things, the spiritual things.*
-Charity: water - "One billion people in the world don't have clean drinking water...1/6.
*This is the unexpected prodox to the thing of disruption.
*What is it that gets us to the place of honesty? to suffer/pain
-Fredrick Beacner said..."I hadn't learned yet the importance of letting the emptiness of me open up"
-When we suffer we can't go through the motions anymore.
*Pain and suffering gets us to that place of honesty...then there is this liberating freedom. the emptiness inside of us then opens up.
-The art of the disruption - "your life is not going to be how it used to be"
*None get to God but through trouble.*
-Talking about Johnny Ca$h
-he was terrified to go on stage just to play for a few people at The Viper Room in LA and he had played many times places before that. He had a whole new voice with Rick Rueban helping him. He was able to play what he wanted and with his guitar. It isn't how much you cram into a piece of work but knowing what needs to be taken away to get at the pure essence of the thing you are trying to design. ART of Elimination.
"Lust For Life" - Van Gough
The bars of soap designs...the bunny, face, chain, fish?,
*What is it about suffering that creates or brings people together that other things don't?
*We're not only. One word and there is this solidarity in the room. (Cancer)
**Suffering unites us!**
1st century cross: Roman Empire from England to India...them saying caeser is lord..not our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-Within this Roman Empire...Jesus Christ the Nazarene came in...the divine...Jesus was executed on a CROSS for our sins. (Sacrificial Love) This is the way of God. God is found here through JC and the cross is a reminder to us for that event.
-Are questions are to the divine...but the cross is God's way of saying that he knows how we feel with every aspect of life. "Fully Human, Fully God"
"I know how you feel"
1. If you have ever been to a funeral of somebody you know...hold up your card. Y
2. If whether yourself or someone close to you have suffered from an addiction...hold up your card. Y
3. If you have ever stared at a stack of bills and thought to yourself, you don't know how to make it work...hold up your card. N
4. If you have ever been betrayed...hold up your card. Y
*When we suffer, our first instinct is that we want an answer now!! But explanations and answers aren't necessarily what helps us heal. Would a person really be able to heal by having things answered?? In some peoples experience, what helps them begin to heal is presence and solidarity and togetherness, knowing you are not alone.*
-The cross speaks to us as a sort of deep primal level. A cosmic jump of iconic "God" message to us..."I know how you feel, you are not alone."
**We may own something but our friends may possess it in ways we don't.**
-Difference between OWNERSHIP and POSSESSION
*You can own something and not possess it and you can possess something and not own it.
We go through something difficult, but there is a peace that surpasses undestanding.
Life is found in possession sometimes but we can have nothing yet have everything.
THE ART OF DISRUPTION
THE ART OF ILLUMINATION
THE ART OF POSSESSION
THE ART OF ...
*What every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential."
*Nothing is wasted in the divine, with God. The God who wastes nothing.
-God brings out in the old creation a new creation. They leave a blemish because they believe that is where the Spirit answers.
*When we suffer, this, too, will shape me.* we can become bitter or we can become better, we will shut down or open up, etc. The people we look up too also have suffered and come out positively because they stay positive. "Your own existence" is a work of art
No matter what happens, everything has meaning and everything is significant in the eyes of God.
God is honest and truth!! We need to be like him, we all fall short but lets work our best.
"Lets see drops like stars, grace and peace be with you."
This is ART!!!
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
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