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As we continue The Trinitarian Conversation, were taking time to pause, reflect, and consider what the truth of the Trinity reveals about the God we worship. The Trinity is not simply something we believe about God, rather, it tells us something profoundly beautiful about who God is. And when we begin to see God as He has revealed Himself—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—it changes the way we understand everything from love and relationship to salvation and our own life in Christ. So today, were asking another question worth lingering over. Read the question, sit with it, and then join the conversation in the comments. #thetrinitarianconversation #trinitariantheology #globalgraceseminary
Introducing The Trinitarian Conversation. Over the next week, well be asking a series of questions designed to help us pause, think, and rediscover the beauty and depth of the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These arent questions simply to answer, but questions to sit with, wrestle with, and talk about together. Wed love to hear your thoughts. Join the conversation. #thetrinitarianconversation #trinitariantheology #globalgraceseminary
There is something almost offensive about how good the gospel actually is. As Jason Clark has said, when we begin to see the goodness of God for what it truly is, we discover that it is far greater than the life many of us have built around our understanding of Him. The gospel is not merely that God forgives us so that we can try harder to become better people—the gospel is that the Father has brought us into the life of the Son, through the Holy Spirit. What does this really mean? In Christ, we are not strangers trying to earn our way into Gods presence, rather, we are beloved children who have been welcomed into the very fellowship of the Triune God. The Father sees us in the Son, loves us with the love He has for His Son, and has given us His Spirit so that we might know—not merely intellectually, but personally—that we belong to Him. This changes everything. Our deepest identity is not found in our failures, our accomplishments, our past, our ministry, our reputation, or even our ability to get our lives together. Our truest identity is found in Christ, for we are the Fathers beloved children because we have been united to the beloved Son by the Holy Spirit. John says: “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” - 1 John 3:1 (RSV) And so we are. Not because we performed well enough or because we finally became worthy. It is because the Father, in His extravagant grace, has given us the Son and poured out His Spirit. So the invitation of the gospel is clear: come and receive what God has already given you in Christ. Lay down the striving, the fear, and the endless attempt to prove yourself worthy, and rest in the love of the Father who has already welcomed you in the Son. Let His love define you, let Christ be the foundation of your identity, and let the Holy Spirit awaken you to the reality that you belong to God. This is why the gospel really is offensively good, for it tells us the truth about God, and invites us to live boldly from the truth of who we are in Christ. #jasonclark #thegoodnewsofthegospel #trinitariantheology #globalgraceseminary
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Do you know what is so deeply beautiful about the Christian doctrine of the Trinity? God is love because love is who God eternally is. Before creation, before we ever entered into time and history, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit shared in the fullness of divine life—an eternal communion of self-giving love. The Father has eternally loved the Son, the Son has eternally loved the Father, and the Holy Spirit eternally shares in the perfect communion of their love. This is why love is not simply something God does; love is who God is. As Fleming Rutledge reminds us, the Trinity helps us understand what the New Testament means when it declares, “God is love.” (1 John 4:8, RSV) The good news of the gospel is not simply that God has love for us, but that the God who is love has, through the Son and in the Holy Spirit, welcomed us into the very life and love of the Triune God. “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God.” - 1 John 3:1 (RSV) So today, whatever you are carrying, remember who God is—and remember whose you are. The Father has loved you from the beginning, the Son has drawn near to you in grace, and the Holy Spirit remains with you and within you. #flemingrutledge #trinitariantheology #globalgraceseminary
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Mike Zenker

Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry

Mike Zenker began pastoral ministry in 1990. Currently Mike is the Sr. Pastor of Hope Fellowship Community Church in Waterloo, ON. As well, he is the National Director for Grace Walk Ministries in Canada. Having been part of a number of different church denominations, Mike refers to himself as ‘multi-tribal’. This has given Mike tremendous exposure to multi-faceted expressions of how believers respond to Jesus Christ. In 2000, Mike was deeply impacted by the book “Grace Walk” by Steve McVey. It was while reading this book that God revealed to Mike who he was in Christ and who Christ was in him. Realizing that he had not heard this truth ‘packaged’ like this before, he contacted Grace Walk Ministries and began the exciting journey of connecting with this ministry. In 2006, Grace Walk Canada was launched as a ministry to ‘Share the Love and Life of Christ’ across Canada. Now Mike spends his time teaching the foundations of who we are in Christ as well as the profound truth of who Christ is in us. The bride of Christ (the church) needs to have a deeper and clearer understanding of who God is and that He is lavishing His love on the world. When we see each other and the world as God sees, then true love (agape) will come flowing out of us towards others.