The Vision that Sustains the Mission (Isaiah 6:1-13)

Main idea: Only a vision of God’s glory and grace can fuel faithfulness in the face of fruitlessness.

Outline:

1. Isaiah’s exposure to God’s glory (Isaiah 6:1–4)
2. Isaiah’s experience of God’s grace (Isaiah 6:5–7)
3. Isaiah’s call to faithfulness in the face of fruitlessness (Isaiah 6:8–13)

Secondary sources cited:

• David F. Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).
• A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (1961; repr., Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2022).
• John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, vol. 1, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, The Library of Christian Classics, XX (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960).
• (Hymn) John Newton, “Amazing Grace,” originally written in 1779.