What's the point?

Ryan Gladwin, our assistant pastor and a research student in theology, said something that stuck with me when preaching on Sunday morning. He spoke of a church that undergone renewal and a visitation of the Holy Spirit in South America. There was much phenomena. Then someone asked, 'What's the point?' And from then on, people were not prayed for unless they were seeking to be intentional about the Christian life.

We must remember that Christ alone is the gateway to knowing the Trinity. We canot speak of the Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit unless we first speak of Christ. In Him the Father's full likeness is met with. He is the Word Incarnate, the Son of God. He pours out the Holy Spirit, and to Him the Spirit testifies. There is no true knowing of Father, Son or Holy Spirit without facing up to Jesus Christ.

And here's the point. Jesus Christ, the harbinger of the Kingdom, is the pursuer of an ethical focus. It is about justice. Care for the poor. Reaching out to real people. Unless we grasp that the meaning of our life is found in and through such loving relationship and motivated intentionality, there is no meeting with the real God. There is only false ecstasy and delusional fabrication.

But when we pursue the path of Christ? Then let the power of the Holy Spirit come!