Thank you for these most interesting conversations! It's such a good idea to look at the Gospel passage that's coming up. I find that I listen to the sermon with greater attention and understand it with greater depth, having heard your thoughts on the passage.
As always great discussion and insights in particular Christ’s kingdom is not from this world. From Luther’s Small Catechism we read: The Second Petition: Thy kingdom come. What does this mean? “The kingdom of God certainly comes by itself without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may come to us also.” How does God’s kingdom come? “God’s kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity.” And to weigh in on Fr. John’s point how too often do we hear in discussions these days the phrase “my truth” as if truth were mere opinion. Listening in from Indiana.
Thank you for these most interesting conversations! It's such a good idea to look at the Gospel passage that's coming up. I find that I listen to the sermon with greater attention and understand it with greater depth, having heard your thoughts on the passage.
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Thanks for that brief ref to NT Wright. I,ve only just found him. Fascinating.
As always great discussion and insights in particular Christ’s kingdom is not from this world. From Luther’s Small Catechism we read: The Second Petition: Thy kingdom come.
What does this mean? “The kingdom of God certainly comes by itself without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may come to us also.”
How does God’s kingdom come? “God’s kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity.”
And to weigh in on Fr. John’s point how too often do we hear in discussions these days the phrase “my truth” as if truth were mere opinion.
Listening in from Indiana.