Title: Seeing the World Rightly

Scripture: Daniel 7:1-14

Speaker: Tim Spanburg, TimS@ChristCommunityKC.org

"Our forefathers conceived of Ragnarok or Armageddon as a judgment visited from on high upon mankind, a Day of Reckoning chosen and enacted by a God or gods. But today, we imagine the apocalypse differently: we’ve swapped ourselves into the position of apocalypse-enactor...You and I have become gods. But that has come with a price: now we can bring about the end. We are the authors of our own destruction."

"I was raised up believing I was somehow unique

Like a snowflake, distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see, And now, after some thinking,I’d say I’d rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery, Serving something beyond me, What’s my name; what’s my station, Oh just tell me what I shoudl do…"

- Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues”

"Theologians...they don’t know nothing...about my soul...oh they don’t knowThey thin my heart with little things and my life with changeOh in so many ways I find more missing everything." - Wilco, "Theologians"

"God is dead, but he’s replaced by everybody else. Everything is permitted, but everybody is watching. So most of the time the best “salvation” we can hope for is found in behaviors that numb us to this reality: drugs, sex, entertainments of various sorts."

- David Foster Wallace