Kingdom Values

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Kingdom Values

• Are We There Yet?
• Part One

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How much longer till we get there?
How far is it?
Daddy, Are We There Yet?
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Unanswerable Questions!

• Where are we right now? Where is Here?
• Where are we going? Where is There?
• Without Answers to the Smaller Questions
• The Big Question Remains Unanswerable

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Here According to Many

• Post-Modern Age has Dawned
• The Modern Age is Waning
• Science no longer our foundation
• Technology not our second floor
• Accumulation of wealth no longer the goal
• Modernity Promised Much

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Modernity Failed to Deliver!

• 20th Century one of the worst!
• Two World Wars
• The Holocaust
• Wide-scale starvation/malnutrition
• Immense Knowledge
• Advanced Technology
• Unprecedented Wealth

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Mass-Scale Rejection of Modernity

• A gnawing pessimism reigns
• Progress inevitable but evil
• Values of modernity lead to destruction
• Where is the Hope?

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Where in the world are we?
What is happening to us?
Does anyone know whats going on?
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The World Needs A Love Letter

• In the midst of change, God offers hope
• The answer is not more stuff
• The answer is connecting in community
• Are We Sending Hate Mail Instead?

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Do We Want to Connect?

• We want to get from here to there?
• Do we fully understand where we are?
• Hear the cries of those caught in the machine?
• Know how to move forward?
• More of the same will not effect change
• Next 50 years will require uncommon courage
• Kingdom Values Are we There Yet?

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