Tenth Avenue North | 1 decade ago
No Man Is An Island - Video Journal by Mike Donehey
From the beginning of time God wants us to know something.
He is a community and we are made in the image of His community.
In this video journal from Mike Donehey of Tenth Avenue North we discuss what it means to live in community with God and with each other.
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Video transcript:
Spirit hovered over the waters. God said” let there be light.” And on the 6th day God said “let us make man in our image.” Our image. God is plural? Yeah. From the beginning of time, God wants us to know something. He wants us to know that is He is a community and that he made us in the image of a community.
Church fathers have called it the Trinity. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Three persons, one essence. Kinda like the sun, right? The star itself is the Father, the light we see is Jesus, and the warmth, the effect, is the Holy Spirit. Why does that matter, right? Well it’s incredibly encouraging. If God was only one, you wouldn’t really know if he was loving or not. I mean he could love but he would have to make something first. But if God for all eternity existed as a perfect relationship, well then we know, love is at the very essence of who he is, it’s his nature and he didn’t make us because he was lonely he made us as an overflow of the beauty of this relationship that he always had within himself. And making us he’s kinda like come be a part of this party, you know? And what I love is not only that, he doesn’t just call us to a relationship with that community, you know, he calls us into a relationship with his body, the church. And there’s a lot of people who don’t like that, they’re like uh uhh I’m not in a relationship with him, I ain’t in a relationship with her. Jesus is my homeboy, that’s all I need. No. We need each other because, well for a lot of reasons but mainly how else are we ever going to love like God unless we’re forced to love people who don’t deserve it? God love us undeservingly and then he invites us to love the same way and to love the people right in front of us. As John Dunn said “ No Man is an Island” and I know, I know it can be easier on your island, it can be easier living in your shame, it can be easier living in your excuses, it can be easier just living for yourself. But, if we want to participate in the divine, then we need to come off our islands and come back to the shore.
