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What is Vertical Reality?
Vertical
– situated at the highest point.
Reality
– that which has existence apart from any idea any mind may have of
it, and which would exist if there were no mind anywhere to
entertain a thought of it.
Our Father is situated at the highest point.
When Isaiah wrote about his vision of God in Isaiah 6, he
said he saw the LORD sitting on a throne ‘high and lifted up’.
He is far from us, but through Jesus Christ – God who is
‘high and lifted up’ – has drawn near to us.
We want all of us to become aware of the reality of what the
gospel has done for us.
It has given us access to God – we now have the spiritual capacity
to relationally connect to God.
It is not what we have done, but it is what God has done
through His Son to make this a reality for all who will believe in
Him.
Vertical Reality weekend is a retreat we take each spring to help us
grow in using the ‘means’ God has given us to develop a real
intimate relationship with Him.
Each year we will focus on a spiritual habit, in the past we
have studied, reading God’s Word, memorizing the Word, church,
stewardship, worship, fasting and prayer, we engage in these
spiritual habits as a means to get to the end and the end is to know
and experience God more fully.
That is our goal, our desire – to grow in our love and
knowledge of Him so that we may live for Him in a world that
desperately needs to know Him!
Who can attend?
ALL students (7-12)
Dates:
April
24-25
Cost:
$25 per student /
$40 max per family
Last day to sign up:
Sunday,
April 5
Where:
Theme:
God and My stuff
Materialism and the desire for more are sucking the life out of us all.
Our hope for the weekend is to expose in all of us
that we have believed the lie, that my hunger for stuff will
stop ONCE I get this ___________.
What does God have to say about this and how do I
fight this lie? Come find out at this years—VR ‘09 Cost: $25 per student ($40 max per family) due by April 24 |
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