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[3840.40 --> 3841.22] resurrection.
[3841.62 --> 3843.52] We practice resurrection.
[3843.78 --> 3845.82] We live resurrection now.
[3846.64 --> 3848.74] To believe in the resurrection is to
[3848.74 --> 3851.30] believe that God has interrupted the
[3851.30 --> 3853.42] nonsense of death with a deeper
[3853.42 --> 3854.50] logic of love.
[3857.00 --> 3860.18] Eugene Peterson, talking about the
[3860.18 --> 3862.92] practice of resurrection, says the
[3862.92 --> 3863.22] following.
[3863.34 --> 3863.68] He says,
[3863.68 --> 3865.70] The practice of resurrection is an
[3865.70 --> 3868.40] intentional, deliberate decision to
[3868.40 --> 3870.04] believe and participate in
[3870.04 --> 3871.10] resurrection life.
[3871.38 --> 3872.50] Life out of death.
[3872.70 --> 3874.20] Life that trumps death.
[3874.36 --> 3875.72] Life that is the last word.
[3875.90 --> 3877.02] Jesus' life.
[3877.88 --> 3879.76] This practice is not a vague wish
[3879.76 --> 3882.00] upwards, but comprises a number of
[3882.00 --> 3884.38] discreet and interlocking acts that
[3884.38 --> 3886.94] maintain a credible and faithful way of
[3886.94 --> 3887.34] life.
[3887.74 --> 3890.90] Real life in a world preoccupied with
[3890.90 --> 3892.56] death and the devil.
[3893.68 --> 3897.48] Resurrection life means faith in an
[3897.48 --> 3898.52] age of nonsense.
[3899.00 --> 3901.12] It means hope in a hopeless world.
[3901.94 --> 3904.04] It means deep feeling when everyone
[3904.04 --> 3905.08] else is apathetic.
[3905.74 --> 3907.96] It means fighting for justice when the
[3907.96 --> 3908.92] battle seems lost.
[3909.52 --> 3912.14] It means loving those who persecute
[3912.14 --> 3912.32] you.
[3912.54 --> 3914.10] It means praying for your enemies.
[3914.26 --> 3916.20] It means feeding the hungry, healing
[3916.20 --> 3916.66] the sick.
[3916.74 --> 3918.84] It means remembering the forgotten.
[3918.84 --> 3923.02] Listen, in an age of nonsense, people
[3923.02 --> 3926.00] will see what you are doing as you
[3926.00 --> 3928.60] practice resurrection and Lord willing,
[3928.80 --> 3930.52] it will finally click for them.
[3931.74 --> 3933.50] That makes sense.
[3934.44 --> 3935.16] They will see.
[3937.30 --> 3940.12] Justin Brierley in his book, The
[3940.12 --> 3942.70] Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God.
[3942.70 --> 3944.74] And this is the subtitle of the book.
[3944.82 --> 3946.58] This is why I picked it up in the first
[3946.58 --> 3946.84] place.
[3946.90 --> 3950.72] The subtitle, why new atheism grew old and
[3950.72 --> 3952.24] secular thinkers are considering
[3952.24 --> 3953.24] Christianity again.
[3954.36 --> 3957.70] In that book, he concludes saying, the
[3957.70 --> 3960.42] most fruitful way we can introduce people
[3960.42 --> 3962.96] to the Christian story is through the realm
[3962.96 --> 3965.26] of the imagination rather than the
[3965.26 --> 3965.78] intellect.
[3965.78 --> 3968.34] And we do that, and here's what I want
[3968.34 --> 3970.36] us to hear, we do that by making people
[3970.36 --> 3973.20] want Christianity to be true in the
[3973.20 --> 3976.36] first place, by showing what it means in
[3976.36 --> 3978.72] our deepest instincts about what matters
[3978.72 --> 3979.28] most.
[3980.34 --> 3984.40] Only then can apologetics work, the work of
[3984.40 --> 3987.24] showing them why it's true, be of any
[3987.24 --> 3987.56] use.
[3990.80 --> 3993.06] We do that by making people want
[3993.06 --> 3995.24] Christianity to be true in the first
[3995.24 --> 3998.06] place, by showing how it meets our deepest
[3998.06 --> 4000.58] instincts about what matters most.
[4001.20 --> 4002.82] This is what the resurrection does.
[4004.62 --> 4005.76] And this is something that I have been
[4005.76 --> 4007.98] thinking about actively for about 10
[4007.98 --> 4008.72] years, right?
[4009.70 --> 4011.40] Imagination as engagement.
[4012.38 --> 4014.32] Aesthetics as apologetics.
[4014.38 --> 4016.12] And that's one of the reasons why I love
[4016.12 --> 4017.60] art, to the chagrin of my wife.
[4017.64 --> 4019.18] When we go on a trip and we go to an art
[4019.18 --> 4021.78] museum, she sits somewhere by herself and I
[4021.78 --> 4022.98] spend hours looking around.
[4022.98 --> 4024.92] That's one of the reasons why I love
[4024.92 --> 4025.42] poetry.
[4027.10 --> 4031.84] And to that end, as we come to the table, I
[4031.84 --> 4035.62] want to end with a poem from Malcolm
[4035.62 --> 4035.98] Geit.
[4037.08 --> 4040.94] We began Easter Friday, or Good Friday, with
[4040.94 --> 4043.14] a poem from Melting Geit.
[4043.14 --> 4045.20] And I'd like to end, to transition to the
[4045.20 --> 4047.84] table, with another poem from Geit.
[4048.00 --> 4051.64] A poem that exemplifies resurrection faith and
[4051.64 --> 4054.00] doubt in an age of nonsense.
[4055.24 --> 4056.78] So this will not be on the screen.
[4057.34 --> 4059.32] This poetry needs to be heard.
[4059.32 --> 4069.74] As though some heavy stone were rolled away, you find an open door where all was closed,
[4069.98 --> 4072.60] wide as an empty tomb on Easter day.
[4074.48 --> 4080.28] Lost in your own dark wood, alone astray, you pause.
[4080.68 --> 4085.22] As though some secret were disclosed, as though some heavy stone were rolled away.
[4085.22 --> 4093.74] You glimpse the sky above you, wane and gray, wide as though those shadowed branches interposed,