Paradigm Shift

Preaching on Jesus’s ascension, David compared the paradigm shift experienced by Jesus’s followers to the paradigm shifts that occur in scientific revolutions, fundamentally changing how we make sense of the world around us:

As to general relativity found by Einstein, British physicist J.J. Thomson said, “General relativity is not an isolated result but ‘a whole continent of scientific ideas.’” By the deep reflection and search of one person Einstein, a gigantic continent of knowledge, which had been unknown, rose to the surface…In the same way, Jesus is not just one great figure and his death and resurrection is not a great event in human history. Jesus is “a continent.” He is the kingdom of God that came down on earth. And everything on it is from him, through him, and for him. And this kingdom expands through the witnesses of Jesus Christ.