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

Our New Identity is a gift from Christ. In the sending of the Spirit, we receive His Spirit of Adoption who cries, Abba, Father. As such, we're joined in the eternal priesthood of Christ, his prayer is ours. "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 Romans 8 explodes with the magnitude of Abba’s eternal plan to heal and renew the entire created order through the sending, the incarnation, of his SON, Jesus Christ. In Christ, we’ve inherited a vast estate, more than we ca