St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

"We are not beggars hoping for scraps. We are like people who have inherited a vast estate: we have to study the documents and visit different locations because it's more than we can take in at a single glance. In the same way, it takes considerable time and effort to begin to comprehend all that we have received in Christ. Theological thinking does not add a single thing to what we have received. The inheritance remains the same whether we grasp its magnitude or not. But the better we grasp it, the happier we are." — Ben Myers, The Apostles' Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism Roman 8 could be read as the Universal declaration of freedom wrought by Christ’s redemptive mission to restore all things – a Trinitarian collaboration as the Father sends the Son to redeem us as adopted, Spirit-bearing children, corporately crying, Abba, Father … a mission to restore our kinship through pure, divine gift … conferring on us infinite, intimate belonging. Paul’s familial language isn’t of earthly origin … as our