The Propaganda of More

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of the series "Simplicity". As part of Practicing the Way. We live with a nagging sense that we never have enough – enough time in the day or money in the bank. We feel torn in multiple directions. Tired of low-grade fatigue. Behind on everything. Beset by constant distraction. We all know the cliché that “the most important things in life aren’t things” is true, and yet time and again we fall for advertising’s ploy. Is there a practice from the way of Jesus that could set our heart free from what Jesus called “the deceitfulness of wealth,” the false promise that money and stuff can give us security and satisfaction? To get free of the endless cycle of desire, and find contentment, margin, and life in the kingdom with Jesus? Yes. It is the practice of simplicity.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bridgetown Church, please turn in your Bibles to Luke 12, as we kick off our spring
0:10.1	practice on simplicity.
0:12.6	If you aren't new to our church or to gathering with us online, Bridgetown is built around
0:17.1	the very simple idea of practicing the way of Jesus together in Portland.
0:22.4	A core conviction of ours is that the way of Jesus is exactly what it sounds like.
0:26.8	It's a way of life, not just a set of ideas that you believe in your mind or biblical theology,
0:32.4	not just a list of do's and don'ts or ethics.
0:35.3	It is a lifestyle that is based on that of Jesus Himself.
0:38.9	Jesus was a rabbi, a Hebrew word meaning teacher.
0:42.3	And our relationship to Jesus is that of a student kind of enrolled in his master class
0:47.8	of living in God's world.
0:50.5	To that end, every few months we take on a practice from the life and teachings of Jesus,
0:56.2	and we experiment with it.
0:57.4	And our working theory of change, practices, or what many call spiritual disciplines, are
1:02.4	conduits for grace to flow into our life.
1:06.6	They're how we kind of open up our mind and our body to God's empowering presence and
1:11.8	cooperate with His work to heal and set us free and expand our soul into love.
1:19.7	And all of the practices are utilitarian, meaning all of them, to a one, are a means
1:24.2	to an end.
1:25.3	The end is to be with Jesus and to become like Jesus and to do what He would do if He
1:31.1	were us.
1:32.1	Practices are not virtues.
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