York Alliance Church Message Podcast

Our truest worship is living before others the life that Jesus invites us into. We are empowered by the Spirit and sent out to those Jesus calls "the least of these." As we demonstrate the Gospel through our lives, we should expect to experience the same results as Jesus did.

Like Jesus, we as His apprentices are anointed by the Spirit and minister throughout our lives in the power of the spirit. The question we must ask is: What is standing in the way of the Spirit's power in my life?

The breath of God filled our first parents in the Garden of Eden, and He also breathes life into us as His people. Through birth and re-birth, we experience the grace of the Spirit breathing life into us. This same thing is true for us as a church. We are reliant on the Spirit of God giving us life as we demonstrate the Gospel to the world around us.

Water is one of the Scriptural motifs that often represented the presence of the Spirit. His presence means a loss of control, but He is also the only true source of life. When we dwell in His presence, we experience real life. (Choice)

It is to our benefit that Jesus left because, then, the Holy Spirit was sent to fill us with His very presence and love. This enables us carry out His mission with the power He intends us to have.

We each receive a unique calling and gifting from God. This gifting must be expressed in community for our mutual benefit and the fulfillment of His mission.

Paul invites all followers of Jesus to pursue the stuff of the Spirit. As we seek Him and move from spectators to participants, we receive what we need for the building up of each other.

When we recognize that we're invited into the Trinitarian community of love, following Jesus in community becomes the natural outflow of our lives.

Dancing requires partners submitting to one another. The Trinitarian community of love is a dance where the persons of God submit to one another. As apprentices of Jesus, we've been called to reflect this dance in our love for one another.

The doctrine of the Trinity can be incredibly confusing and can quickly seem irrelevant to our lives as apprentices of Jesus. However, the last extended teaching of Jesus with His disciples was rich with Trinitarian language. Through Jesus we have somehow been invited into the glory of the Trinitarian God, and the fact that we can't exactly understand that shouldn't eliminate the joy and wonder it brings.