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We are in the Psalms—
Psalms is the magnetic center, pulling every scrap and dimension of human experience into a prayerful response to God.
complaints and thanks, doubt and anger, outcries of pain and outbursts of joy, quiet reflection and boisterous worship.
If it’s human, it qualifies
Eugene Peterson.
(n.d.).
As Kingfishers Catch Fire.
They are some of the oldest and most beautiful poetry in history.
Largely the church ignores them to just a few lines here and there.
But if they were lost and recently recovered — they would be in the front pages of every newspaper
We want to sit with them this summer.
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Asaph
History
Slipping
Lion king
History
Nature of doubt
3 examples
Jesus
Trapeze
Opener
Imagine the following scenario..
We are singing Worship….
God you are good…
— what if the leader was singing, directing… but within was doubting the very words they’re singing
Or preacher.
This was the world of Asaph...
He was the leader of worship for Israel.
He was and one of the great families or guilds of musicians and singers in the Jerusalem temple
He wrote 12 psalms
He leads the gathering to worship// God is good..
But Asaph opens up whats happening within and shares his little secret…
But as for me … I couldn’t buy it anymore.
— I had a hard time believing…
He was filled with Doubt.
Doubt can happen to anyone
Anybody relate??
You’ve been coming to church for months… years.
— and you’re gripped with the idea that you struggle to believe
the words of the song
a particular passage..
Faith
The whole god thing
Asaph Is leading worship and he comes to the realization that he doubts.
— listen to the way he describes it…
“My feet were slipping”
The image is a hiker going up a mountain—Yosemite … you don’t think about the next step..
but you slip and now you cant find your footing .
Loss of balance
and you hope that momentum wont take you far..
There is someone else who struggled with his feet slipping underneath him.
—bear
My Feet were slipping… is there a better way to depict the nature of doubt.
— you trusted
— you believed
— you showed up
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But now it feels like that foundation is slowly shaking…
Now you feel that your feet that have been standing our slowly giving way.
Asaph says, I was on the edge of letting everything go… my ministry, Fatih… belief.
There have been may studies done trying to figure out the faith of teens.
— the insights are fascinating.
One study looks at what happens when they leave home.
When they’re on their own..
When they go off to college and get challenged.
Hear other points of view.
7/10 leave the faith
Those numbers are troubling
History
How do we understand this???
A secular age…
1500s———>2000s
1500’s Hard not to believe
Recited catchesim
Memorized verses
Everybody believed
Doesn’t matter if you’re a drunk on the side of the street— or a scientist in the lab.
2000’s — hard to believe
— skeptical
— we doubt
Everyone is a doubter… We believe while doubting,
Listen to Asaph's doubts
There’s an objection, he doesn’t like the way things are.
—I saw the prosperity of the wicked
—I’ve been washing my hands
—envied
I looked around me and people that did evil were thriving.
Buying new cars…
What are some of our doubts???
— we grew up in a home… that might have been abusive and doubt if God even cares because you prayed for help.
— our fathers would read Jericho coming down.
And would say… look at Gods provision and victory.
— today, I cant help to read and be troubled … Thats a few hundred or perhaps thousand people dead.
Person on drugs having kids—yet you’re infertile.
Creationism
Peter Berger- western culture is set up to make you doubt.
How do we live in such a cultural moment??
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We believe while doubting
Western culture is set up to make you doubt.
Theres a movie that has the answers to many of lifes questions….
Lion king — akuna matata— no worries.. or just do you
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