Belief, Experience, and Expectations of God

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Why do we struggle to rest in the love of God? Perhaps, says Steve Cuss, it’s because we’ve never “wrestled to the ground our own preconceived notions.” On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Moore and Cuss dig into some of those preconceived notions about God and Christianity. They talk about fear and anxiety, persistent sin, and addiction. Their conversation covers the differences between a preventative and a redemptive gospel, the power of community as an antidote to despair, and how to determine when a failure is an inevitable part of life or when it is a sign that something is wrong. Moore and Cuss discuss the five false needs in every human, what it looks like to give our anxiety to God, and the great hope of the thief on the cross. Resources mentioned in this episode or recommended by the guest include: Abbey of Gethsemani The Silence of God The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs & Experience of God by Steve Cuss Being Human Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard Herbert McCabe Managing Leadership Anxiety episode “Dr. Andrew Newberg” Frederick Buechner “‘I Wish You Bad Luck.’ Read Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ Unconventional Speech to His Son’s Graduating Class” “The Man on the Middle Cross Said I Can Come” Philip Yancey Click here for a trial subscription at Christianity Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.5	Get tickets at Museum of the Bible.org slash ACS. Oh, So, Oh, yeah. There's a place in Kentucky out away from everything where I would go all the time to pray and sort of try to find my way, a monastery where Thomas
1:27.9	Merton once lived, and a friend of mine who also would go to Gethsema many Abbey often,
1:34.6	eventually wrote a song about it.
1:36.8	Andrew Peterson's The Silence of God,
1:39.5	in which in the song there's some lyrics that say this.
1:43.5	There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll
1:46.4	in the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold.
1:49.3	And he's kneeling in the into the silence of God, the aching may remain, but the breaking does not.
2:07.0	Today I want to talk about that aching and breaking, and more specifically about the silence of God. What do we do when there seems to be a huge gap between what we know about God and what we experience with God. What do we do when there's a gap
2:26.0	between who we know we are in Christ and how we're actually living? What do we do when God doesn't seem to be there? And I wanted to talk today
2:40.0	to Steve Kuss because he has a fascinating new book and it's called the expectation
2:46.8	gap, the tiny vast space between our beliefs and experience of God.
2:55.0	And Steve is uniquely, uniquely equipped to talk about this.
2:59.2	He's a former trauma and hospice chaplain, and he grew up in Perth, Australia, moved to the United States with theological
3:06.8	study, has been working in these issues of spiritual care and clinical
3:11.4	pastoral education for a long time.
3:13.5	And he is part of the Christianity Today team.
3:17.9	He hosts a podcast with CT called Being Human.
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