How is it with your spirit?
Is life satisfying? Do you have a sense of peace, everyday? In our Roamin’ with Romans series, Paul constantly asks us to pay attention to our soul, our allegiance to the Spirit of life and peace. Now is the time to prepare the soil of your soul for the planting of news seeds of faith. Can we have that Spirit without doing anything?
I join Paul in saying, “YES!” And, “NO!”
Yes, because this spirit is a gift of God through Christ. This Spirit breathes life and peace where she wills and it is not up to us to direct her or harness her. This is the freedom of God at work in the world to bring the new creation.
No, because Paul also instruct disciples to learn and grow and work out our salvation. St. Andrew will begin a new again commitment to intentional spiritual formation this fall.
Church School
The Discipleship Committee will be introducing a whole church program of “learning together about our God-given faith and purpose.” The first component will likely be a Sunday schedule of educational opportunities.
Please begin to pray about your spiritual development and how you want to grow. It may be in Bible study, or in topical conversations. Perhaps there are particular questions in your life that you wish you could ask—and get an answer from—God.
Now is the time to prepare the soil of your soul for the planting of new seeds of faith.
“what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it,
who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.” Mt 13: 23
JESUS MAFA. The parable of the sower, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48309 [retrieved July 20, 2023]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr