Episode 200: September 29, 2024 - Re-Enchanting The Text - Part 1

Eternity Church PodCast

A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont. Literacy is foundational to learning and connection. Your reading of the words in this sentence is the fruit of labors that you, your family, and your teachers took up. We work hard to establish literacies in our primary language, in second languages, in other disciplines—learning to read a blueprint, a source code, a new recipe, or a room full of people. Pentecostal scholar Cheryl Bridges Johns points to a critical illiteracy in Christian communities. She writes, “we live in a world that cannot abide silence …Yet there is a silence that no one seems to mind [wherein] the voice of Scripture is falling silent in the preaching and teaching of the church and in the consciousness of Christian people, a silence that is perceptible even among those who are most insistent on their devotion to the Scriptures.” She attributes this silence to a long-unfolding “disenchantment” of what is sacred, mysterious, and challenging within Scripture, and proposes a “re-enchantment” of both our view of the power of Scripture and of the presence and work of God’s Spirit within the modern world. As we come to worship Sunday, may we bring our full selves into an encounter with the Spirit of God moving upon the people of God as His word is proclaimed!