1. THE CITY: CONSUME & COVER

2. SIN & CULTURAL IMPACT In the Garden In the City “[The city is] where culture reaches critical mass – where culture over takes nature as the dominant reality that human beings make something of.” - Crouch

3. SIN & CULTURAL IMPACT In the Garden In the City – Union – Rebellion

4. SIN & CULTURAL IMPACT In the Garden In the City “[Babel became] a completed cultural project, a city, whose entire purpose is to cover, protect, and shield its people from other human beings and from their Creator.”- Crouch

5. GOD’S RESPONSE Judgment – Divine Condescension – Human Confusion Grace – Human Dispersion – Divine Restoration

6. GOD’S RESPONSE “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong … so that no man may boast.” - 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

7. OUR RESPONSE Pursue Humility “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower to pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”- Saint Augustine

8. OUR RESPONSE Pursue Humility “It is NOT sin that humbles most but grace, and that is the soul led through its sinfulness to be occupied with God, in His wonderful glory as Creator and Redeemer, that will truly take the lowest place before Him.” - Andrew Murray

10. OUR RESPONSE Pursue Humility Stop Hiding & Be Known … – By Your Community – By Your Church

11. THE CITY: CONSUME & COVER