There are some theologians whose ideas are so strikingly interesting they cause us to think about things we never have. Paul Tillich's idea that God is "the ground of all being" or Karl Rahner's concept that there must be a "Word" from God since "we are hearers of the Word."
Teilhard de Chardin was a Process Theologian. He saw God as a process alive in the world. He believed that we can respond to it or reject it, but there is something that is calling us toward the idea the there is love in the world. God is that which calls us toward the love. There is a process that is leading us. We can choose to respond or not but we have an opportunity to respond and to be part of something bigger than we know.
What is more important than the ideas Teilhard had discovered is the way he looks at the things he sees. The sermon will focus on the way he looks and what he sees and we are invited to look that way with a view to seeing some things in different ways.
Teilhard looked at the world and he saw God. He looked at God and he saw the world.
How we look determines what we see. How do you look and, as a result, what do you see?
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
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