I had such good intentions of writing notes and writing and reflecting on all the wonderful things I am learning, but I didn't realize how exhausted my brain was going to be at the end of the day.
We had our second teaching today on the Harp and Bowl model of worship. Again, it's all really awesome, but I am not a singer, musician, or an intercessory prayer leader. But I did have to pray on the mic today at the Justice Prayer Room (it was mandatory). It wasn't so bad, but not sure that I would volunteer to do it again on my own. I LOVE worship, but I am not a worship leader...thank goodness. And I am not a huge fan of praying on a microphone. I'm just saying.
We had small group tonight, and it was really awesome. First Sarah and I were dancing around sock-footed on the hardwood floor. Then we both talked about our passion to dance, and she taught me a little about how to team up and do interpretive dance. It was fun, so we are going to dance in the prayer room one day. Preferably when there are not a lot of people there, ha, at least for my sake...she dances pretty. Well, we had popcorn and tea for a snack, and then were led into worship. It was really powerful, we ended up in a spirit of intercession, and we interceded on the behalf of righteousness over the elections on Tuesday.
Our Excellencies of Christ was a little bit on the pre-existence of Christ, and Christ the Mediator. Basically, there was NEVER a time when Jesus did not exist. And there are soooo many scriptures. I love it. And then as Christ the Mediator, basically, Jesus represents God to us. AND Jesus represents us to God. And Jesus is always going to agree with Jesus. So Jesus represents God to us and agrees with how good He is, and Jesus represents us to God, and agrees that His blood has atoned for us. We can't lose. That's AWESOME. He quoted Thomas Oden, and I think this is really powerful, "The mediator between God and humanity would have to be nothing less than God and nothing less than fully human, otherwise this mediatorship would have been impossible, for how can one mediate a conflict in which one has not capacity to empathize with one or the other side?"
This was in the notes, quoted by Von Balthasar, Hans Urs (yeah, I don't know), "Anyone contemplating the life of Jesus needs to be newly and more deeply aware every day that something scandalous has occurred: that God, in His absolute being, has resolved to manifest Himself in a human life. He must be scandalized by this, he must feel his mind reeling, the very ground giving way beneath his feet; he must at least experience that 'ecstasy' of non-comprehension which transported Jesus' contemporaries (Mark 2:12, 5:42, 6:51)." That's an intense statement.
Allen Hood said that, "The incarnation is mysterious. It's the subject matter of worship, not just apologetics. Because we cannot understand it, we must fall down and worship it. If God is going to give us something to meditate on...it's not going to be something easily grasped, not for this age or the age to come. We will forever meditate on the incarnation. Jesus makes contemplation possible. The only reason we know what God is like is because He has revealed Himself FULLY in Jesus. He not only shows us w
hat God is like, He shows us what we're made to be like. This is our inheritance."That's awesome.
My brain. Oh my brain, off to bed...here is another song that I love...this is the song that the EGS broke out in dance the other night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw1aLy6O0J0
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