Sermon
Marks of Discipleship: A Pilgrim Mentality in a World of Consumerism
Treeline Church
Speaker: David Livingston, with Andrew Hager
February 6, 2024 · 43 min
DiscipleshipIdentity in ChristFaithStewardship & GenerosityHebrews 11:8–16Hebrews 11:13–16Genesis 12:1
Summary
Hebrews 11 teaches that Christians should adopt a "pilgrim mentality," viewing themselves as temporary residents passing through toward their true home in heaven. Rather than consuming endlessly in pursuit of earthly satisfaction, believers find freedom to sacrifice worldly pursuits and live radically for Christ, knowing their real inheritance awaits in the resurrected new creation.
Highlights
We have become consumers. And the very things that we fill our lives with are often the very things that keep us from happiness, right? But we fill our lives with them nonetheless because to have a life that was simple or to have a life that wasn't busy would be to just have a life. And we'd have to face the reality at the center of our souls.
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Christians are the weird people in the airport who are not building as much as everybody else. And they're not saving like everybody else. And they're standing in the midst of a subdivision with a backpack on and people are like, why are you not doing the thing everyone else is doing?