Brandon Vogt

“In today’s always-on, always-connected world, we have contact with more people than ever before. For instance, Twitter users have an initial 2,000 “follower” limit while Facebook has a “friend” limit of 5,000 – and yes, many people bump up against these constraints.”

Author of “Timeless

Truths, New Media”

Brandon Vogt

“But despite these vast connections, many online relationships are shallow. New Media tends to cultivate relationships that are a mile wide and an inch long, reducing relationships to sentence long Facebook comments and 140 character tweets.”

Psalm 42:7

“Deep calls to deep in the roar of your

waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept

over me.”

Series Outline

•A Mile High and a Mile Wide Aren’t Enough.•Deepening Your Faith in God.•Deepening Your Love of God.•Tapping into God’s Power.•Experiencing the “Fullness” of God.

Series VersesEphesians 3

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

Series Verses

Ephesians 317 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 

Series Verses

Ephesians 319 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Today’s Topic

A Mile High and a Mile Wide Aren’t

Enough.

First Point

We typically use an incomplete model

when measuring our Christian experience.

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Amy Grant “Fat Baby”

He’s been baptized, sanctified, redeemed by the blood,

But his daily devotions are stuck in the mud.He knows the books of the Bible

and John 3:16.He’s got the biggest King James

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How are you doing along the Z Axis of your relationship with God?

Second Point

Shallowness limits our

relationship with God.

Skyline Drive

Luray CavernsTitanias Veil

Luray CavernsDream Lake

“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself” – John Milton

There is no end to books, and too much study will wear you out. –

Ecclesiastes 12:12 CEV

Matthew 721 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 

Matthew 722 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’  

Matthew 723 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

A.W. Tozer on “Shallowness”

“The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.”

What wonders are you

hungering to experience in a

deeper walk with God?

What prevents you from allowing God

to lead you into that deeper walk?

Third Point

Deep relationships are the most

satisfying and enduring.

John 1725 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

John 1726 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”