GRACE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
12/11/24 07:29
We can do better than ‘have a faith’ and much better than be an adopter of ‘Christian values.’ Unless our relationship with God is a personal travelling each day with the Christ of God an attachment to a ‘Christian Generality’ does little for the elevation of humanity. Such a relationship will suffocate genuine social transformation and capture adherents of this kind of ‘faith’ in the illusion that they are ‘born again’ when really they are the same old, same old people who are semi-blind and not fully alive. The kind of faith we have effects the kinds of political leaders we choose to run the country.
DOOR TO GOD
“If we are really to have knowledge of God we must be given a point of access to him which is both in God himself and in our creaturely existence. That is precisely what we have in the incarnation, where God’s self-revelation as Father takes place through his self-giving to us in Jesus Christ his Son.” (1)
Because of Christ’s finished work, the Trinity accompany us and live in us. Because of this we take on what we call the kind of ‘Godliness’ that transforms who we are as people who participate in the grace and wisdom of the Christ who lives in us.
REAL INTIMACY
“We can know God only if he brings us into communion with him in the inner relations of his own being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This sharing in the knowledge that God has of himself was made possible through the incarnation of God’s Son and his mediation of the Spirit of the Father and the Son. In the incarnation God communicated himself to us in Jesus Christ his beloved Son, not something about himself, but his very Self, and thereby made himself known to us according to his own divine nature as Father.” (2)
‘On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.29 NIV. This is the day that we become truly alive as Life-Givers who are becoming healed selves and persons who are partaking in the wisdom, love and life of God to be rivers of His life.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 52). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
(2) Ibid (p. 54). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
DOOR TO GOD
“If we are really to have knowledge of God we must be given a point of access to him which is both in God himself and in our creaturely existence. That is precisely what we have in the incarnation, where God’s self-revelation as Father takes place through his self-giving to us in Jesus Christ his Son.” (1)
Because of Christ’s finished work, the Trinity accompany us and live in us. Because of this we take on what we call the kind of ‘Godliness’ that transforms who we are as people who participate in the grace and wisdom of the Christ who lives in us.
REAL INTIMACY
“We can know God only if he brings us into communion with him in the inner relations of his own being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This sharing in the knowledge that God has of himself was made possible through the incarnation of God’s Son and his mediation of the Spirit of the Father and the Son. In the incarnation God communicated himself to us in Jesus Christ his beloved Son, not something about himself, but his very Self, and thereby made himself known to us according to his own divine nature as Father.” (2)
‘On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.29 NIV. This is the day that we become truly alive as Life-Givers who are becoming healed selves and persons who are partaking in the wisdom, love and life of God to be rivers of His life.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 52). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
(2) Ibid (p. 54). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
