Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste & smell– are vitally important for successful engagement with the physical world. Yet, these senses have powerful, formative & transformative effects on the human soul. The Spirit of God uses these channels for His work in our lives. In this series, we are tracking each of these senses and their effects in-and-of-themselves & God’s use of them on the soul. We are asking: How are we facilitating redemptive encounters with God in the neighborhood and Nations, using these senses? In other words, when people “see” us, how do they “see” God, for example.

In this particular sermon-synopsis let us explore “feeling.” Feeling has a number of connotations. When I eat ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, I feel awesome, and later full. When the creamy goodness melts on my tongue I can feel the sweet delicacy slinking down my throat.

Yet, in this post I want to consider feeling in the sense of the particular audio-visual tape that consumes our minds and hearts as we encounter life. Again this is a bit different from feelings deriving from physical touch and feelings deriving from particular encounters with people, things, and events. I am considering the global attitude/mood that governs our interactions with the world.

In short as Christians, what is our prevailing mood when it comes to engaging with the world? What governing attitude drips from our minds and hearts onto the tastebuds of the souls in the neighborhoods and Nations? What impression about God is engraved in the hearts and minds of those souls when they encounter us in the neighborhoods and Nations?

Ephesians 2:1-10

We have been saved with a powerful Salvation by a powerful God for powerful ministry in the neighborhoods and Nations.

Ephesians 1:15-23

If One who saved us, Jesus, is truly seated above all powers and principalities, then why do we fear the powers and principalities? When needy souls encounter us, what does our faith-mood engrave on their hearts and minds about God, the world and life?

Ephesians 6:10-20

Truly, Jesus rules over all powers and principalities. Truly, we need not fear those powers and principalities, though they make take our lives. God does not intend for us to founder in faith in the world. God intends for us, as Christians, to boldly war against those powers and principalities for the people in the neighborhoods and Nations. He desires the audio-visual tape perpetually playing in our hearts and minds to be one of courageous and enterprising faith. He desires this faith-mood to flow into the needy believing souls of others. He desires to whet the appetites of unbelievers with the drip of our faith mood.

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