derailed

I think the Derailed sermon series is one of the best ones I've heard Orchard Hill Church do in my 18 years going to Orchard.  

It may seem that it is solely a series about moving through grief and loss, but it's also really a series on the spiritual growth journey of dying to the world so that we might live in Christ.  It's about the journey into compassion and justice that requires us to meet the SHOCK of brokenness found not only in the world but in ourselves, the SORROW and lament needed in confession and repentance, the crisis of faith and STRUGGLE that ensues as we're called to live and give in a different way in the world, the SURRENDER needed to follow the way of Christ, and then the SANCTIFICATION and SERVICE that occur when we move into being and doing from within places of the marginalized and pushed aside in our society and world.  

Try listening to the series from a personal ear regarding your own places of loss and disappointment.  Then try listening to the series from more of a systemic ear, an ear for the pain and loss required of us as Christians to pursue reconciliation, healing, peace, and justice in the world.  

Start with the sermon "Shock" by Jeff Mickey and listen through to the last, "Service" by Brian Steenhoek.

http://www.orchardhillchurch.org/media-center/2016/derailed


"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."  Frederick Douglass