Message: “Eliminating Hurry, vol. 4: the Solution to the Problem” from Ross Stackhouse

Message at 28:45. Christianity hasn’t always done a great job of representing the heart of Christ. It’s odd, isn’t it? Well, humans tend to human. Perhaps what has been misrepresented the most about Jesus is his goal or hope with humans. Jesus’s goal was not and is not to just get us to believe something that saves us in eternity. Jesus’s goal was and is to bring us close to him in a relationship and teach us his way of life, a way of life that brings rest to our souls, glory to God and relief to others. Jesus invites us into his presence like friends and apprentices who are learning his way of love, his eternal kind of life. From the outside looking in, it seems like Jesus’s way of life is radical and super difficult. What we will discover the longer we are his apprentices, is that, yes, his way is radical and challenging, but it’s also strangely easier than the hurried, busy, distracted lives we’re currently living.

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From Series: "Eliminating Hurry: the Great Enemy of the Spiritual Life"

Dallas Willard said, “Hurry is the great enemy to spiritual life in our day.” We are more hurried, busy and distracted than we’ve ever been as human beings. We sleep less, rely on digital devices more and more, and think of “slow” as a really, really bad thing. Whether it is out of a sense of fear or insecurity or pain or guilt or a combination, normal for more and more of us is living life at a speed that doesn’t lead to life at all–at least not the abundant spiritual life for which God made us. There is good news: God’s mystery, power and love are there for us to experience all the same. The good news is that there is a richer, deeper, better faith beyond the mediocre faith we’ve been frustrated with or have avoided altogether in the midst of our rushed, distracted living. If we can learn to unhurry our lives and learn to be still with Jesus with our weariness and burdens, we will find rest for our souls. We will find that Jesus’s yoke is easy and his burden is light.