Who’s really the center of the universe? (Future Grace #2 of 7)

During my first year of college I developed the habit of sitting down with a paper calendar— the kind I still carry to this date— the first day of class, syllabus in hand. I always wrote which chapters were being covered on which dates, when terms papers were due, which day I had tests, and any other noteworthy items the professor offered the class. That way, I had everything at a glance. And, I could work ahead... 

I carried the same habit to grad school and quickly realized I had a problem: I had far more to read and much more to write. 

So, I began working ahead. I figured that if I could knock off a few of the larger books during that first week of class— while professors were generally giving us introductory info and ramping up, I’d find myself in a much better position once the full grind of school hit full steam.

That first weekend I grabbed the 750-plus page Grenz book (a massive theology tome) and spent hours at the Barnes & Noble coffee shop, highlighters in hand. I devoured it...

I noticed something fairly quickly, though— something which helped me make sense of the tension I’d felt since Pop's funeral-- the one I talked about in the previous episode...

Let me explain— 

Most theologians write about God using the omni-words: 

✅ Omniscient

✅ Omnipowerful

✅ Omnipresent 

Grenz had a unique angle on each of these. Specifically, though, on that final one, I found an unexpected comfort.

To paraphrase in my own words— “Most people think of God’s omnipresence as Him being present everywhere. He’s present to everything. But, let’s flip the script. Let’s look at it a different way. Rather than look at those things as the center— and God moving towards them, let’s make God the Great Object of the universe— and make everything present to Him."

Or— to say it another way, “What if we don’t say that God is everywhere, thereby making Creation the center of our theology? What if, instead, we say that everything is present to God, that it is all oriented around Him?”

He becomes the core force, the center piece of the cosmos.

Why does that shift matter? 

Listen in...

In this episode I take a shot and defining why, because the thing you center your "world" around really matters.

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