There are three great tenets of an authentic spirituality which we have been considering together. This week, we are going to look at the confession of faith which has characterized an authentic spirituality for 20 centuries. Read Mark 8.27-30 Just as in the previous passages, the deaf and dumb began to hear and speak, and just as the blind has begun to see, so also had the disciples began to become aware of who Jesus was. But just like the blind man in the previous story, the following story shows us that their spiritual vision was only slowly beginning to clear. They knew he was the Messiah, but they did not clearly know what that meant.
Perspective is important because perspective determines conclusions.
A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden. They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French. Perspective was important to Jesus, and he wanted his disciples to share in his kingdom perspective. His priorities were not with dominion and prosperity and power.