Bishop Ough from the West Ohio Conference of the UMC spent some time at school today with us. Great thoughts.
- It’s more important to reflect on the questions, rather than answers
Questions God asks of humans:
- Who am I?
- Where are you?
- Do you want to be here?
- Whom shall I send?
- Do you love me?
Questions humans ask God:
- Where are you?
- Why me?
- What do you want me to do?
- How can this be okay?
- Are you the Christ?
- What must I do to get eternal life?
- Are you with us or not?
- We must understand the questions so we can shape our ministry around what people are struggling with
- Behind the question is the real hunger
In groups we identified the most basic God questions that are universal to all humans:
- Is there a God?
- Why do bad things happen to good people? (If God is good, why is there evil?)
- Does my life really matter?
What deeper questions are we really asking when we ask those? God, do you really care about me? We fear that we don’t really matter.
- Jesus spoke to the fundamental questions people were asking.
- People come at us with these questions and we frantically try to answer them. But those aren’t the real questions they’re asking. There’s a hunger behind those questions.
- Our most basic question: Does God love me?
- Jesus used these universal questions to get their attention so he could ask other questions.
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