1) Tag line: Living the Life of God for the Life of the World - Uh, do what?
I grew up in the holiness tradition where being holy was preached and valued. I still preach it and value it but it has its dangers if it is not grounded in the mission of God.
In the last post I mentioned that we are "Trinity Life Church" because we want to live a life together that models the life of God, and the life of God is the eternal love of the persons of the Trinity. But what does it mean to life like this for the life of the world?
Answer: it means that instead of sharing life together as an end in itself, we share life together so that we might go back into a dead world to breathe into it new life.
The life of God is perfect love and holiness, but the life of the world is pale, deteriorated, and deflated. In other words, the world is not alive at all, but dead. Out of God's eternal triune love comes life. He opens up his creativity and wills to create. He loves creating! He loves creation! He loves the potential! God's love is not a selfish love!
The danger is to live in community together, sharing the life of faith together without ever reaching out to the lost and dying and broken world in own back yards. Like God, we live in constant communion with each other but like God we also find delight in bringing life to the dead world around us by sharing the love of Jesus with others.
At the heart of Trinity Life Church will be missions, both local and international.
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