This Fall at CitySalt, we are taking time to explore six foundational ideas about God anchored in the Bible and early Christian tradition. Taken together, these aspects of God can provide something solid and reliable for us to hold onto in the midst of a world that feels so unsettled and unpredictable at times. Yet these truths about God are only known and learned as we walk in and experience them for ourselves. As a guide in this series, we will be using the book The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware. This book, written by a brilliant scholar of Eastern Orthodoxy, has proven to be a solid and hopeful guide for many people searching to make sense of who the Christian God really is and how Jesus Christ has made God known. Rather than presenting attributes of God as dry, abstract doctrines, Ware frames theology as a living, experiential journey toward communion with a relational God in whom we live and move and have our being.
With Ware’s book as a guide, we will explore these six core attributes of God:
God as Mystery
God as Trinity
God as Creator
God as Humanity
God as Spirit
God as Prayer
In the fifth of this series, Pastor Aaron explores God as Humanity, the incarnation of Jesus. God becoming human. God entered the world that He created and submitted Himself to the very laws, rules, and limitations that He designed. No special privileges. He enters into all our joys and pains. He cares and loves from a place of knowing.
