Throughout it all, Bishop Love maintained his theme of a Bishop, a Diocese, and Christianity itself under attack. In one breathtaking passage, he lifted up the example of Christians martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015, and compared their murders to the kinds of attacks he sees conservative Christianity enduring in the West.
“There are reasons I go back to Scripture to study how Jesus acted and spoke and taught. In that jumble of redacted bits and pieces, remembered stories and sayings from the Apostles and first disciples, cobbled together into a canonical anthology, there really is, as we confess, all that is needed for salvation.”
How do we talk about the Holy Spirit in our lives?
Requiring believers to accept a particular view on marriage in order to follow Christ comes closer to the behavior of the those condemned by St Paul than the behavior of provinces which have expanded their understanding of marriage. The doctrine of marriage has the appearance of becoming a new “circumcision.”
It’s the feast of the Pentecost, when we celebrate the continuing gift of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Additions to Daniel and Esther, and the book of Judith
“…For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you have received a spirit of adoption.”
Romans 8
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