What’s the Issue Anyway?

We have moments of disillusionment that challenge our WILLINGNESS. Without willingness we won’t see our WOUNDS move from stupid to sacred.

What Wisdom does Isaiah 6 offer us today?

Isaiah was in a moment of religious DISILLUSIONMENT. (1)

The six wings symbolize HUMILITY, REVERENCE and READINESS before God. (2)

Isaiah experienced God in a way that made sense to him in his CULTURAL MATRIX. (3-4) Grace is the healing of the wound we all experience from the foundational lie of DIVINE

unworthiness and unforgiveness. (5-7) Isaiah is WILLING to live as a sent person. (8) The Message doesn’t feel too POPULAR. (9-12) Isaiah’s faithfulness was his SUCCESS STORY.

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Sent people are WILLING and FAITHFUL people.

How can I live this out in my everyday, normal life?

Am I a peacemaker with a spirit of HUMILITY, REVERENCE and READINESS? Am I experiencing religious DISILLUSIONMENT as a beginning or an ending? Do I see myself as a SENT person?

How does living as a sent person make me and the world a better place?

Sent people baptize every circumstance with the hope of MEANING and PURPOSE.

What is God inviting you into today?

1. Begin to see the places of my everyday normal life as places God has sent me.

2. I would like to explore where God is sending me to volunteer in Crossroads Church.

3. I would like to learn about our Partner Organizations and see where God might be sending me.

Thought-provoking questions:

1. When have you been given an opportunity but a wound from your past got in the way of saying yes to the opportunity?
2. Why do you think this vision story has been so enduring and encouraging to millions of people throughout time and history?
3. What is the significance of the forgiveness of sin in this story?
4. What is the relationship between willingness and faithfulness for Isaiah? Why do you think he never gave up when he experienced defeat?
5. Do you have enough space in your schedule to be ready when you sense God giving you an opportunity to participate in a divine moment?
6. What is the difference between these two statements:

a. “Everything happens for a purpose.”

b. “I have a purpose in everything that happens.”