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Sermon Clip: Generic God
“Let’s all just get along.” Is this what God and religion are really about? All we have to do is just be good to people? Almost all religions can agree on this, but it is a generic view of God. In this clip from Greg’s latest sermon, he talks about this generic view of God and how that affects our pluralistic culture.
In the full sermon of the Mixed Signals series, we explore how humans have historically given God, or the gods, attributes we ourselves have desired. In our present day this trend has manifested itself in a very generic, distant, tolerant, and civil picture of God. God is viewed as an ambiguous force defined by His power, and viewed as merely a giver of moral guidance wanting us all to get along. Greg and Seth expose how this misguided picture of God has led to a large population of Christians still viewing themselves as Lord of their own life.
Full sermon here: http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/generic-god
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Tags: Christian Life, Greg Boyd, Kingdom Living, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
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