by Amy Kim Kyremes-Parks
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
“This country has had a history of large monuments. In this century we created monuments of everything. It might be our dependence on energy that keeps us diminishing resources faster than they can replenish in order to be a superpower, or the art piece that has been in the family for years that everyone wants, churches do this with flowers, furniture and designated giving… the lure of ultimate power authority and control has become for us all an idol. Intertwined in this is the continual separation of our humanity. The more we buy into supremacy culture and the lie that there is one way of thinking, the less aware we become that interdependence is how we were created. The illusion of independence separates us and makes us believe we are not connected when everything we do is.
If this false comfort and lack of interdependence separates us, it also keeps us from deepening our loyalty and faith in God.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 2/12/23 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 40:25)