TABLE & WELL PODCAST: Life OVER God

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TABLE & WELL PODCAST: Life OVER God

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HOSTS: Tennison & Ginelle Barry

“LIFE UNDER, OVER, FROM, and FOR GOD each seeks to use God to achieve some other goal. God is seen as a means to an end. For example, LIFE FROM GOD uses him to supply our material desires. LIFE OVER GOD uses him as the source of principles or laws. LIFE UNDER GOD tries to manipulate God through obedience to secure blessings and avoid calamity. And LIFE FOR GOD uses him and his mission to gain a sense of direction and purpose.” 

“But LIFE WITH GOD is different because its goal is not to use God, its goal is God. He ceases to be a device we employ or a commodity we consume. Instead, God himself becomes the focus of our desire. But before we can really desire God, we must have a clear understanding of who he is and what he is like. The reason most people gravitate to one of the other four postures is because they’ve never received a clear vision of who God is, and so they settle for something less.”

In this episode, Tennison and Ginelle’s conversation centers around what living a LIFE OVER GOD looks like, presented in the book ‘WITH: Reimagining The Way You Relate to God’ by Skye Jethani.  LIFE OVER GOD dismisses religion as irrational superstition and seeks control by discovering how the world works and then directly implementing the right principles. Living a LIFE OVER GOD means that there is no room or need for God. Our desire to control our environment and mitigate our fears no longer requires appeasing God. Instead, we view the universe as a machine that we can understand.  This reduces and limits God to a reproducible formula, and worst than that, you stop looking to a relationship WITH God and look just to discern the reliable principles of God.

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Tennison and Ginelle Barry are the founding curators of Table & Well. Their shared gift of seeing people right where they are, and deep desire to create connection, have been common threads woven throughout their decades of fostering, pastoring, and community leadership.

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