SPEAKING OF LIFE
A weekly web programme from GCI commenting each week providing a biblical perspective on how we live in the light of God's love.
Speaking Of Life 2014 | Value of Connection
Speaking Of Life 2014 | Value of Connection

Because of the built relationship, we know we can trust our Abba Father to show us where to go. We can know we are loved.

Jesus says “I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE…” – John 14:6

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Thought for the Week

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Hello,
 
Fear can make us do terrible things.
 
I was filled with sadness this week when I read about how a bus containing evacuees from coronavirus-hit China was attacked in Ukraine.

This was not a rational response, but as this crisis escalates the rational arguments are rapidly giving ground to emotional ones.
 
For many of us, our great fear is death itself. The end of life. Interestingly one of the hallmarks of the Christian faith for the last two thousand years has been its followers' willingness to die for their faith. To give their lives for others no matter the cost.
 
At the root of this is the Christian belief that death is not the end. Through Jesus Christ, Christians believe that even in the darkest of circumstances there is always hope. Because of God’s love for us, there is life after death.
 
Love, not death, has the final word.
 
Warm regards,
 
Gavin

Gavin Henderson is a member of the National Ministry Team for Grace Communion International in the UK
21st January 2020

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Taken from - Day by Day - Growing Together in Life and Faith                                      ​http://www.daybyday.org.uk/ 

Friday Bible Study
21st February 2020

The Greatest Exodus

“And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.”
Mark 9:4 (NIV UK)​
Have you ever seen a group of people huddled together and wondered what they are talking about? Here Elijah, Moses and Jesus are talking together, but what are they saying? Mark doesn’t tell us, but thankfully Luke does: “They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfilment at Jerusalem” (Luke 9:31).

The word ‘departure’ is literally ‘exodus’, which is showing us that Jesus leads a new exodus: an exodus out of sin and death that is the fulfilment of that earlier exodus out of slavery. Peter, never slow to stick his foot in his mouth, says, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah” (Mark 9:5). In saying that, he probably thought he was honouring Jesus. After all, Moses is a great hero from the past through whom God gave the law, Elijah, representing the onset of the prophetic age, performed numerous miracles, and so, Rabbi Jesus, we want to include you in this elite company.

Despite his confession in the previous chapter, Peter really didn’t understand the significance of who Jesus was. So, a voice speaks from heaven and says, “This is my Son…Listen to him,” (verse 7), which is not said of Moses or Elijah. Jesus stands in line with Israel’s greatest God-endowed prophets, but he utterly outstrips them. As God’s eternal Son he is in a league of his own.

Moses led the exodus of Israel from physical slavery in Egypt, but it is only Jesus who leads the exodus from our spiritual slavery to sin and death. Elijah raised the widow of Zarephath’s son to physical life, but only Jesus can raise us to everlasting life. All the law and the prophets speak about Jesus and these prophecies are all fulfilled in him (Luke 24:25-27, 44). It is Jesus we are to look and listen to, not Moses or Elijah.

Thankfully we don’t need to wonder what Jesus is saying to us: “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent…For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day…I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life” (John 6:29, 40, 47).

As we listen to the Son and believe that he died and rose on the 3rd day leading humanity out of sin and death into eternal life, we are responding to the voice from heaven and fulfilling the Father’s will. 

May we have ears to hear.
Prayer
Father, thank you for your Son Jesus, who alone has the words of eternal life. May we listen to him.
​Amen
Study by Barry Robinson - member of the National Ministry Team for Grace Communion International in the UK​​

You're Included

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Author William Paul Young is a friend of Grace Communion International whose book, The Shack, has sold over 20 million copies worldwide since it was first published in 2007, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.

Below are two interviews from the GCI web programme "You're Included" with writer Paul Young and theologian Dr. C Baxter Kruger.
​Dr. Kruger uses William Young's book The Shack to discuss the triune God's love for all humanity.
Dr. C. Baxter Kruger is the founder and the president of Perichoresis, Inc. and of Mediator Lures. He obtained his doctorate working with James Torrance in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is also the author of  "The Shack Revisited."
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​Paul Young talks about how "The Shack" was written, and he discusses how the nature of relationship is embedded in the Trinitarian character and nature of God. William Paul Young is the author of the best-selling novel "The Shack" and "Cross Roads." Copyright 2015 - Grace Communion International All Rights Reserved

The God Revealed in Jesus Christ

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A collection of articles outlining Trinitarian theology

The series begins with Jesus Christ. As God in the flesh, he reveals to us what God is; he teaches us that the Father is in character just like Jesus. Other doctrines flow from that point. Jesus reveals that there was, even before time began, love between the Father and the Son.

There are relationships within God, yet there is only one God. Humanity was made in the image of God, and we are made for the purpose of having eternal relationships, based on God’s love, with him and with one another. Yet we fall short of this divine purpose; we are unable to qualify ourselves for the kingdom of God. This brings us back to Jesus, the incarnate God.

As our Creator, he could represent us all, and so he became human as our representative and substitute, to atone for the sins of all humanity and to reconcile all humanity to God. He extends unconditional love and grace to us. Humans, however, do not always return that favour, and so there is a growth process toward the goal God has established for us. It is tremendously good news, and the more we learn about the God revealed in Jesus Christ, the more that we desire a relationship with him. We have not earned his love, but he has earned ours. It is all built upon the unity of the Father and of Jesus. And yet the Bible says that there is only one God. How can we have plurality within one Being?

​The doctrine of the Trinity was formulated to say how Father and Son are one God: two Persons in one God. As we discuss in another book, the Holy Spirit is likewise a Person in the Triune God. God is love, and we are invited to join him for eternity!​

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