We are in a series on the book of Revelation. We called it “Everything Sad Untrue,” because we know, at the end of history, Jesus will return and make all things right. He will make everything sad untrue. But what about now? What do we do with this kind of sadness and hardship and pain now?
And not just the outright persecution of the global church, but our own sadness. Our pain and suffering as believers when it seems like sadness is winning. How do we endure the sadness in this time between? The more I read the book of Revelation, the more I think it was written to answer that very question. And as we enter a new section of the book, starting here in chapter 6, I believe we get the beginning of that answer.
From Series: "Everything Sad Untrue - Leawood Campus"
We all know something is wrong. Politicians promise if you vote for them things can be right again. Religions promise if you obey their teachings things can be right again. Businesses promise if you buy their product you can feel right again. We know it is not true, but we keep hoping...Maybe this time.
But what if everything wrong can be made right? What if all the empty promises we believe are pointing to one, true promise? What if our broken world can be fixed? What if everything sad will one day come untrue?
The book of Revelation claims precisely this, but in a strange, confusing, hope-filled way. This book gave the earliest Christians power to navigate a broken, sad world with courageous, unshakable joy.
What did they know that we don’t? They knew Revelation, and so should we.
Join us as we read what they read, we pray what they prayed—so that our church community might live as they lived.
