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

Our new fall series will consider why, as Anglicans, we are given to historic, catholic Christianity in light of common notions proposing "spiritual but not religious." This first message asks the question, why Church? The very nature of God is love ... God is love, an eternal love shared within the communion of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This love has been poured into our hearts by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Through Christ, we are gathered into the very communion of the Holy Trinity, a communion of love. Why? To become, progressively, Christlike. The Eastern Church calls this Theosis, the process of divinization, becoming Godlike, Godly. God became like us (the incarnation of Christ) so that we may become like God (through the mediation of Christ). Christianity, thus, is a participation in the divine nature (2 Peter 1) ... God at work within us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure (Philippians 1). Thus, if God is love, and the law and the prophets are summe