The Breath of Community that comes from God

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Preparing for Worship at Good Sam on 5-26-13

The one thing that Christians often hear about from those of other faiths is the community 3idea that God is three and that God is one.  We call this the Doctrine of the Trinity.  Perhaps it is a bit of a stretch for us to imagine a unified God with three expressions, but it isn’t so much a stretch for us to hear that God desires community.  We actually learned this from Jesus.

community 1 Even in the telling of Creation, In Gen 1:26-31, God says let us make human kind in our own image, male and female let us make them.  God sees fit to make us with community among ourselves in mind and it is difficult to hear in this that God also desires community with us.  Perhaps this is the purpose of making us in the image of God.

Perhaps in God’s own self there is a sense of community and desire for community.  I imagine that this is really the whole purpose behind creation itself:  God searching for and creating the possibility of Community between us and God.

I say that God is best discovered in community.  Partly that means coming to community 2know God in Jesus and the depths of God revealed to us in Jesus’ work, but also the presence and life of God that comes in “Ruah”(breath, life and spirit).

This Sunday we will gather to explore the life of community that God gives and desires with us.  This is the real meaning of the Trinity.  God comes to us as community and in community for the purpose of creating true communion.

Pastor Mitch