Disorienting
Disorienting
Finding oneself in the center of a new an unfamiliar major city can be extraordinarily disorienting. I mean, just try to navigate Edinburgh, Scotland—a city in which nothing is straight, or straightforward—without something like Google Maps. Fun fact: the setting for Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter series is an actual normal street there, so...
I bring this up because this week’s Epistle reading from the second half of Hebrews 12 points to a new and unfamiliar (and fairly major!) city we’re promised for the future, and also of which according to this passage, we’re already locals…or should be.
It’s a city that’s both now and not yet. And this present/future city is also full of breathtaking and welcoming features that we might find bewildering and overwhelming…in a word, disorienting.
It ought to, however, have the opposite effect. Rather than disorient us, it ought to orient us to our true home…to something both material and eternal.
See you Sunday.
Steve+
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Men’s Bible Study—Thursdays, 7AM @ 1309. We’re beginning a new 10-week series on The Letters of John: Embracing Certainty in times of Insecurity by John Stott next Thursday and you’re welcome to join us. Just let Steve know you’re coming, and purchase your study guide here.
Chesapeake Baysox Baseball and Fireworks—tonight, 7:05PM. Purchase tickets at the game and join us on the first base side. Check it out here.
5th Sunday Potluck/Membership Sunday—Next Sunday, August 31. Plan to bring a main dish and a side or dessert to share.
Fall Women’s Retreat with Chrystie Cole—Friday, October 24 & Saturday, October 25 @ 1309.
Evening Prayer—Wednesdays, 7PM @ 1309
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