Monday, February 20, 2006

On Sunday nights as a follow-up to our recently concluded expository tour of Galatians, I am sharing Biblical insight on the Holy Spirit.

If you think about our traditional teaching on the Godhead, we've often imposed a framework upon our understanding of the Trinity. For example, think of how we've typically thought of the Godhead in corporate, hierarchal terms: God the Father is the CEO; Jesus the Son is the Vice-President; the Holy Spirit is the inter-office mail carrier, just a notch above the custodian.

How did we ever conceive such a misguided notion about the role and responsibility of each person of the Godhead? And what would happen if we recovered a truly Biblical view of three distinct persons yet one God? And why (out of extremist fear) would we ever neglect One whom Jesus himself calls our "Comforter"?