Exploring A “Messy” Relationship with Our Modern World
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Perhaps one of the most common and most unanswered questions in the modern church: What should our relationship with the world look like?
Relationships with people are messy, but one relationship that seems difficult to understand is the relationship between the church and the world.
Should we embrace it?
Fight against it?
Run away?
This is not a new question, but one that the church has always asked.
In the third week of our series on relationships, we’re going to look at Ephesians 5:1-21 to find some clues on how we’re called live in relation to the world.
When it comes to the world, our natural inclination is usually one of two things: fight it, or embrace it.
Sometimes, or a lot of the time, the world feels like a threat.
It’s easy to want to completely cut off from the world, to protect our children and families from it.
We feel the need to defend and fight against it, but often this makes an even bigger mess in our relationship with the world and we end up not looking like the people Paul is describing in Ephesians 5.
In the same way, it’s easy to accept the invitations from the world around us and assimilate.
We are taught daily what values and narratives we are to imitate by the world around us. When we simply embrace it, this makes a mess as well, and we no longer look like the people we see Paul describe in Ephesians 5.
God has called his church and his people to live a different way, a way that is both healthy in God and robust in love, and a life of imitating Christ and walking in love faithfully in the community, neighborhoods, and places in which he has assigned us.
This Sunday, we’ll explore what walking in love looks like in a world that is complex, full of idols, and countless invitations to imitate the narratives it has written for us. The hope is that we will neither run away nor embrace it, but we will be faithful in seeking to understand what is God doing in the world our role in it.
We hope you’ll join us on Sundays from April 24 to June 5 as we dive into the mess of relationships.
