Jan 2, 2013
Christocentric, not Christomonic
I agree that the Bible is Christocentric: the gospel as the center of the Bible is a story of how Jesus as Israel’s Messiah has come to restore the world through is death and resurrection. However, how can we understand the New Covenant work of the God-sent Messiah without understanding his Spirit-anointing which brings about a transformation of believers’ hearts as a fulfillment of the New Covenant?
I couldn’t agree more. Read the whole thing here.
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Anson
> When is the last time your church mentioned the Trinity, much less had sermon or a sermon series on the Trinity?
That’s why I’m so glad to be an Anglican, having the fully Trinitarian collects read out loud every week =) Not only that, the Holy Communion liturgy, up to the very last post-communion prayer is soaked in Trinitarian language.
I really can’t imagine worshipping in any other way.
Jan 2nd, 2013
edmund
Thanks Anson. Yes, members from liturgical churches seemed to have greater exposure to words like the “Holy Spirit” or the Trinitarian formula. I just hope that all of us pastors/ministers will be more connected/concerned to the reality of our average congregation — what does it mean to be Christocentric, not Christomonic in our Christian living? Ask your parishioners how the Holy Spirit, the one they have recited week after week through the collects and formula, is also at work in their lives (not just “God” as theocentric, just “Jesus” as Christomonic, or a combination of just the 2)? They might give you a blank look on their face.
I am sure you are not one of them, but sometimes I met pastors/ministers whose appreciation of their own tradition and/or theology are completely disconnected and so far off from the rest of congregation. They might enjoy every details in worship up on cloud 9 (or should I say 3rd heaven?), yet the experience for the rest of the congregation is quite another story.
Jan 3rd, 2013
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