1.29.22 - A Place of Holy Mystery (Kenny Camacho)

SCRIPTURE: Colossians 2:2-10

“Just as Jesus is somehow home to the fullness of something impossible, the church is meant to be a home to that fullness, too [...] And we’re called to this because the world needs it. This whole time, the world has preferred a version of God that helps to explain us: why we’re here, who we are, what we’re meant for. But the truth is that we exist in order to testify to the nature and the mystery of Him: we feel love in a way that overwhelms us, but is just a fraction of the Love of God. We sense justice, but in a way that barely imitates the righteous character of God. We build communities and cities and nations, but in ways that are like sandcastles compared to the Kingdom of God. The point isn’t that we should feel small or pitiful or insignificant: the point is that in us, the mystery of God dwells.” 


REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. Where are you, at this point in the series? What are you learning? What questions do you have? Where are you pursuing confidence over certainty in your own life?

  2. This week, the focus of our series is shifting from how we can move from certainty to confidence in our personal lives to what the consequences of such moves could be for our church as a whole. How do you think the insights of this series so far could impact Revolution? Our weekly services? Our ministry to the city of Annapolis? 

  3. In his letter to the Colossians, Paul writes that his goal “is that [all the regional churches] may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” How would you interpret this verse? What does it mean for us to “know” a “mystery”? 

  4. What is so mysterious about Jesus? Have you ever thought of Him this way?

  5. The challenge for this week is to embrace mystery. What does this challenge mean to you? How does it resonate with your spiritual journey as a follower of Jesus?

Kenny Camacho