Beautiful Collision: #2 Blindness

Sermon By Corky Calhoun

Pastor Zach did a great job of setting the foundation for our "Beautiful Collision" series last Sunday. The preaching team's goal was to help us understand that if we are going to have an "Impact" in the world for Christ, then we need to understand that for us as believers everything starts with God's Beautiful collision with us in creation and in His son Jesus Christ. These divine collisions are truly everywhere, simply because it is the desire of God's heart to intersect with our life, so that we might have beauty from ashes. Did you know there are thirty-one healings by Jesus recorded in the Gospels? Of these twenty-five percent of them (8) are around blindness. Seems like a disproportionate amount of blindness compared to everything else that gets his attention. Could it be there is more to this emphasis than we can see (and there is the point)? You see, we live in a world full of Blindness. There is "Inherited" Blindness that comes from the generational passing on of hate and bigotry. There is "Institutional" Blindness that fails to see anything but the bottom line. There is "Relational" Blindness that prevents us from confronting brokenness and dysfunction. There is "Spiritual" Blindness that prevents us from seeing the Truth of Christ over the traditions we cling to. I would even say in my opinion that Love is not blind, at least "true" love isn't blind. Lust is blind, infatuation is blind, sex is blind, but genuine love always brings things out of the darkness. So is it possible that we are not blinded by the light, but blinded by the Darkness? Jesus comes and collides with our blindness. And here is the deal, the longer you're a Christian the more prone you are to Spiritual Cataracts, a distorted vision that fails to grasp God doing a new thing. You simply fail to see God working all around you. Join us Sunday as we collide with our blindness so that we can fully see!