When you ask a congregation, especially Govans congregation for sermon topics, you never know what you’re going to get. I asked this congregation to complete the following question ”What does the Bible say about ________?” Shortly after that I received the following e-mail from choir member Doug Storey:
“Hi Tom, In response to your request for sermon topics, here is one I have been thinking about for a long time.
A book that influenced me many years ago was the slightly hippy-dippy effort to popularize Eastern philosophy, especially the Vedanta, by Alan Watts called “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.” In it, he provides a simplified version of the Hindu creation myth that goes something like this…