SERMON: "Be Reasonable" (Rev. Don Van Antwerpen, 11-05-2023)

This is the sermon delivered by Rev. Don Van Antwerpen to the congregation of the Unfinished Community, on Sunday, November 5, 2023.

Drawing from Revelation 7:9-17 and Matthew 5:1-12, we spend a little time this week working through the difference between the wise, rational, and reasonable decisions made by humans, angels, and elders alike, and the wild and unreasonable choices made by God. How do the dictates of the reasonable constrain us in our lives? Does God really want us to practice love in careful and measured ways, or are we meant to love proudly and without restraint? And what does it mean when the world calls us unreasonable for it; what happens to us when we love as God loves? Have a listen to this week's sermon to find out more!

(Manuscript available at the website below!)

Scripture links are below!

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This sermon is also available as a video on YouTube, if you'd like to observe the preacher in its natural environment. It's like a theological safari!

First Scripture Reading: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%207%3A9-17&version=NRSVUE

Second Scripture Reading: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205%3A1-12&version=NRSVUE

Sermon Manuscript: https://pastorkuma.wixsite.com/unfinished/post/be-reasonable

Unfinished Community: www.unfinished.love