26: Good Friday & the Great Commission

Guest: Michael Acock

• “I’ve found that there is an ideal of loving the nations, which is very different than learning to actually love the people of the nations.”
• “If we’re going to really make peace, it’s not about just keeping everybody calm and keeping the surface from having disruption, but it’s really actually creating disruption for the sake of hearts being connected. You don’t do heart connection without suffering.”
• “Lament has to do with actually grieving someone else’s pain as much as your own.”
• “Grief is the noun form [...] but lamenting really moves you into the verb form of grieving and expressing grief.”
• “Jesus lamented our condition, but then He solved our condition as well on the cross.”
• “On Good Friday, we get propelled into seeing Jesus’ Great Commission, which was to share His Sonship with us. We get to join as co-heirs with Christ because of what He did.”
• “The Great Commission is more than just telling people about Jesus, but it’s actually living completely loved in front of people.”
• Living the Resurrection by Eugene Peterson
• Surprised by Hope by N. T. Wright
• “Easter says, in all pain, there is still this ray of hope that comes because of the love of Christ.”
• “I don’t think we were supposed to get through this life completely unscathed. We are supposed to get through this life redeemed. That’s where Good Friday is about redemption.”

• Keane: Video animation
• Heather: “Rest” by Kari Jobe and being still
• Michael: Leading in interdependence on the church staff