Drinking Out of the Water Hose

A Midwest childhood of open windows, no cellphones, and drinking from every water hose was the way I grew up. Then on a Tuesday twenty-five years ago the world changed. We lost an innocence and we suddenly needed a security we had never felt the need for before. In this episode, Bill Vanderbush names what is so hard to recover once it is lost, and draws the deeper parallel. Theosis was the early church’s ordinary way of life in union with Christ, slowly replaced by distance and separation until the power of the cross has been universally diminished in sermons today. This is a call to recover what was stolen, not by rebuilding an innocence we cannot get back, but by drinking again from the new covenant life God has never stopped offering.