Our God Is So Much Greater Than We Even Realize: Gary Wilkerson and Matthew Barrett
Our tendency can be to describe God in ways that are more like ourselves, as if he is just a bigger, better version of us. The God of the Bible is altogether different than us. He is eternal, infinite, timeless, perfect, unchanging and self-existent. Matthew Barrett joins Gary Wilkerson to discuss how the incomprehensibility of God helps maintain the distinction between Creator and creature.
Key Points from the Podcast
- Our tendency can be to domesticate God and describe him in ways that are more like a bigger, better version of ourselves when God is actually altogether different from us.
- God is eternal, infinite, timeless, perfect, unchanging, and self-existent.
- We must be careful to avoid extremes of thinking that say either God is completely unknowable or completely knowable.
- God is incomprehensible, yet knowable. Our finite minds cannot comprehend all of God, but in his compassion, God chooses to reveal himself to us in ways we can understand.
**This conversation was originally featured at Worldchallenge.org**
Gary Wilkerson
Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth.
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