08/12/2018
Revelation 22:16-21
Chris Breslin
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” -Lesslie Newbiggin
“Foot washing is perhaps the most futuristic practice of the church, though not many people really believe that. Most Christians think they are being cutting edge and futuristic when they have busy graphic presentations running on a Mac during their worship times. Removing our shoes before one another is a jarring practice even for church people – it’s like listening to a Radiohead album in the 1950s… The gospel of the new humanity is not that there will be a resurrection of the spirit, but that there will be a resurrection of the body [by the Spirit].” -Jonathan Martin
“The immigrant church was like a familiar home where we were able to eat together and share our love for the food of our motherland; we ate kimchi and enjoyed the pervasive garlicky odor of fermented spiced cabbage that we were used to hiding from the outside world.” -Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Rely on the Holy Spirit in the Struggle for Justice
“The physical world is not annihilated or thrown away like hopeless trash, but re-created, flooded with the presence of the God who made it.” -Jeremy Begbie
“God redeems not human abstractions, but rather people in their inextricably communal and cultural realities.” -J. Richard Middleton
“…in everything God is waiting for us.” -Juergen Moltmann
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
River by Jenkins/Vivion/Block/Bridges
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come by Alford
Come, People of the Risen King by Townend/Gettys
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed by Montgomery/McCracken
All Who Are Thirsty by Brown/Robertson
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Doxology
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:
On the Holy Spiritby St. Basil the Great
Spiritual Theologyby Simon Chan
God, Sexuality, and the Selfby Sarah Coakley
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of Godby Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testamented. Firth & Wegner
Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Humanby Steven Guthrie
The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost(Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Pneumatologyby Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Lifeby Jack Levison
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spiritby Clark Pinnock
After the Spiritby Eugene Rogers
Thinking in Tonguesby James K.A. Smith
Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testamentby Christopher J. H Wright
The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theologyby Amos Yong
Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighborby Amos Yong
The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContextby Amos Yong
Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostlesby Amos Yong
