ReFrame Episode 7 - The Church & the Spirit

The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes everything, bringing hope, life, and meaning to every part of human culture. And yet many of us can't see how our faith shapes much of everyday life and experience Sunday to Sunday, the in-between days. Where was Jesus? I didn't think about the whole of who I am, what was I passionate about, or how God uniquely made me. What God's purpose is for us? What does it mean to be made in the image of God? How do we live in the world but not of the world? God wants to make us more ourselves. He is holding all things together, and that he is reconciling all things to himself. We're exploring how does the biblical story reframe our story. We live out of our stories, so be located in the story, the biblical story in which God reveals himself, his character, and his life.

in-between days where was Jesus I didn't think about the whole of who I am what was I passionate about or how God uniquely made me what a God's purpose is for us what does it mean to be made in

You know, if there's a resurrection life, if there's the restoration of all things, if there's the restoration of human community and the community of all things with God at all that he loves, then at some point the world needs somewhere to look in and go, but what would that be like? And I think the place that we begin is the people of God. To do that requires the power of the Spirit. Over the last year, besides, we've been exploring the big story, scripture, starting at the beginning and creation, its climax in Jesus, and looking forward to revelation at the end. It's a big story that makes sense of all of life, not just for Christians but for everyone on the planet. We're in the middle of the story between the resurrection and the new creation at the end. But is it enough just to know the story? How do we live in it? I became less and less interested in my work as I got more and more involved in the church. When accountants like that got to do with God? Mary Lamb lived some works in Vancouver, Canada. To address this disconnect between her work and her faith, she enrolled in a theological degree at Regent College. My finger, my perception changed region. I realized that God cares about my work. God cares about my work. So a lot of accountant and engineer, all of this, well, putting things in order, organizing how to take good care of the creations, which is what God has given us, what God entrusted to us.

does the biblical story reframe our story we live out of our stories so be located in the story the biblical story in which God reveals himself his character in his life [Music] you know if there's a resurrection life

However, despite all this education about work and faith, Mary felt stuck. Discerning where God was leading me, in helping me understand how faith comes into my work, I actually ended up getting really, really, it was a very long time, was very depressive. I was touring in many different ways. I think the biggest thing was just not knowing, not knowing the future. Why am I attention servicing like us and the goal to achieve? But it was not clear. What does it mean to be led by God? How to discern God's will? All those things, you know, you study it, but in real life, how did the CERN trying to learn about having this personal intimate relationship if God is still wondering what that is? So it was an extremely lonely place, and yeah, I experienced sort of what depression was like. I thought, what's the point of getting up in the morning? Mary knew all the right theology, but she couldn't connect her story with God's story. She couldn't discover God's love, peace, and purpose in her life. How do we enter into the story? How do we go from being spectators to participants? In this next episode, we're looking at the giving of the Spirit in the birth of the church, how God transformed a frightened group of disciples into a missional community that would change the world.

would that be like and I think the place that we begin is the people of God to do that requires the power of the Spirit over the last year besides we've been exploring the big story scripture starting at the beginning and creation

And the day of Pentecost came. They were all together in one place. Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled. A number of years ago, I was doing research for an article on the history of revival on the Canadian Prairies in the 20th century. I was sitting on the sixth floor of the University Library in Saskatoon with a stack of academic journals, and I was working at full speed when I came across one particular piece on the early life of pioneer life of people in Saskatchewan. It was based on interviews that had been done with some of the old-timers who could still remember those early days. The article surveyed political, social, and economic life, and the last section treated religion. I read a quotation on the last page from one Mr. II II Lundell reminiscing wistfully. It seems that the automobiles of today and the hardtop roads make neighbors farther away from each other. I'll never forget the aroma coming from the prairies and the wolf willows as we came walking to the schoolhouse church services. And when I say we, I mean whole families. I had a catch in my throat when I read those lines since Mr. II II Lundell was my late grandfather, and one of the little hands he held as he walked through the fields was my own mother's. All of a sudden and unawares, I found myself in the story. I was studying the wave of history had crashed on my shore. I was not a spectator. I was a participant.

new creation at the end but is it enough just to know the story how do we live in it I became less and less interested in my work as I got more and more involved in the church when accountants like that

And so we come now to the place in the biblical story where we were reminded that this has to do with us. The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost means that we can never be mere spectators in God's story. We are all participants. At the beginning of C.S. Lewis's story, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Edmund and Lucy and Eustace were looking at a picture of a ship on the open sea. It looked especially vivid, like things in the picture were moving. And soon, and they felt a wind blowing out of the picture toward them. They smelled a wild, briny smell, and then a cold salt splash broke right out of the frame, and they were wet through and breathless with the smack of it. In a moment of confusion, they felt themselves pulled through the frame into the picture and down into the sea. This is what needs to happen to you and to me with the biblical story, and it is the wind of the Holy Spirit that we must feel blowing into this room and the living water of the Spirit that must stretch us here and now. It is not enough to have a reframed understanding of the biblical story. We must be pulled through the frame and into the story, left breathless from our encounter with a living God.

God cares about I work God cares about my work so a lot of accountant and engineer all of this well putting things in order organizing how to take good care of the creations which is what God has given us what God entrusted to us

Tron Wright has suggested we can look at the biblical drama like a play with five acts. The first three acts were creation, fall, and Israel. And then, as I'm acting, the fourth act came with Jesus coming out onto the stage of history. But next comes the fifth act, the story of Pentecost. In this act of the play, we are no longer in the audience or waiting in the wings of the stage. We are queued to walk out into the story and play our part. It is the coming of the Holy Spirit that makes this possible. He did it at Pentecost in a rushing wind and tongues of fire, and he continues to do it today to draw us into the story. Jesus promised his disciples that they would not be left orphans, but that he would send the Holy Spirit to draw them more intimately to himself and to the Father. On that day, you will realize, he said, that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. As my friend Daryl Johnson says, you cannot get closer than that.

touring in many different ways I think the biggest thing was just not knowing not knowing the future why am attention servicing like us and the goal to achieve but it was not clear what does it mean to be led by God how to discern

Jesus promises the disciples of Jesus will be drawn deeper into love's mysteries by the Spirit. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. The coming of the Spirit brought this intimate, interior, subjective experience of the life of God himself. We become incorporated, made one body with Christ, united with him. In Book 2 of the Institutes, John Calvin wrote eloquently of all that Christ had done and suffered and accomplished for our salvation. But then he begins Book 3 by reminding us that all this remains useless and of no benefit to us if we remain somehow outside of it. We must be united to Christ. He says the Holy Spirit, he says, is the bond by which Christ effectually binds us to himself. Being united with Christ by the Spirit, we experience the blessing.

experienced sort of what depression was like I thought what's the point of getting up in the morning Mary knew all the right theology but she couldn't connect her story with God story she couldn't discover God's love peace and purpose in her life how do we enter

into the story how do we go from being spectators to participants in this next episode we're looking at the giving of the spirit in the birth of the church how God transformed a frightened group of disciples into a missional community

that would change the world [Music] and the day of Pentecost came they were all together in one place suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting they saw

what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as a spirit enabled a number of years ago I was doing

research for an article on the history of revival on the Canadian Prairies in the 20th century I was sitting on the 6th floor of the University Library in Saskatoon with a stack of academic journals and I was working at full speed

when I came across one particular piece on the early life of pioneer life of people in Saskatchewan it was based on interviews that had been done with some of the old-timers who could still remember those early days the article

surveyed political social and economic life and the last section treated religion I read a quotation on the last page from one mr. II II Lundell reminiscing wistfully it seems that the automobiles of today and the hardtop roads make neighbors farther away from

each other I'll never forget the aroma coming from the prairies and the wolf willows as we came walking to the schoolhouse church services and when I say we I mean whole families I had a catch in my throat when I read those

lines since mr. II II Lundell was my late grandfather and one of the little hands he held as he walked through the fields was my own mother's all of a sudden and unawares I found myself in the story I was studying the wave of

history had crashed on my shore I was not a spectator I was a participant and so we come now to the place in the biblical story where we were reminded that this has to do with us the descent of the Holy Spirit at

Pentecost means that we can never be mere spectators in God's story we are all participants at the beginning of CS Lewis's story the voyage of the Dawn Treader Edmund and Lucy and Eustace we're looking at a picture of a

ship on the open sea it looked especially vivid like things in the picture were moving and soon and they felt a wind blowing out of the picture toward them they smelled a wild briny smell and then a cold salt splash broke

right out of the frame and they were wet through and breathless with the smack of it in a moment of confusion they felt themselves pulled through the frame into the picture and down into the sea this is what needs to happen to you and to me

with the biblical story and it is the wind of the Holy Spirit that we must feel blowing into this room and the living water of the spirit that must stretch us here and now it is not enough to have a reframed understanding of the

biblical story we must be pulled through the frame and into the story left breathless from our encounter with a Living God Tron right has suggested we can look at the biblical drama like a play with five acts the first three acts were creation

fall and Israel and then as I'm acting fourth act came with Jesus coming out onto the stage of history but next comes the fifth act the story of Pentecost in this act of the play we are no longer in

the audience or waiting in the wings of the stage we are queued to walk out into the story and play our part is the coming of the Holy Spirit that makes this possible he did it at Pentecost in

a rushing wind and tongues of fire and he continues to do it today to draw us into the story jesus promised his disciples that they would not be left orphans but that he would send the Holy Spirit to draw them more

intimately to himself and to the father on that day you will realize he said that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you as my friend Daryl Johnson says you cannot get closer than

in Jesus promises the disciple of Jesus will be drawn deeper into loves mysteries by the spirit my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him the coming of the spirit brought this intimate interior

subjective experience of the life of God himself we become in corporate made one body with Christ United with him in book 2 of the Institute's John Calvin wrote eloquently of all that Christ had done and suffered and accomplished for our

salvation but then he begins book 3 by reminding us that all this remains useless and of no benefit to us if we remain somehow outside of it we must be united to Christ he says the Holy Spirit he says is the bond by which Christ

effectually binds us to himself being united with Christ by the spirit we experienced the blessing of being placed into the very center of a filial relationship with God sonship God's pet set the spirit of his son into our

hearts the spirit who calls out Abba Father the Trinitarian work of salvation has drawn us in to the Trinitarian love of God himself from the inside now we experience this this personalizing work of the Spirit is reflected in all the

biblical language of the pouring of the divine spirit of love into our hearts of the Spirit sealing the innermost core of our spirits of the Spirit filling believers inwardly and of the spirit test fiying to our spirits interiorly so

pentecost was not the result of an act of cognition on the part of the disciples in the upper room they didn't just reframe their thinking about Jesus as previously in the biblical account God Himself acted decisively and he

spoke decisively in history God moves the story along he continues to ask people to trust him and he is able to keep the story moving along even when people fail him and so the spirit descended at Pentecost and filled the

disciples and they became the church the confusion of mount Babel in Genesis that had divided the peoples of the earth was now reversed as the disciples began to speak in other languages and the long prophesied in gathering of the nation's

into the people of God was begun the church did such theology such even reframing as they could in what time they had left over from coming into existence life came first reviving before reframing the spirit as the very

life of God is elemental he is the water of God the fire of God the wind of God water by the Spirit we are baptized immersed plunged into the life of God fire by the Spirit we are scorched

purified and burned with desire wind by the spirit we are animated inspire ated and blown to wherever the spirit in his freedom wishes above all the spirit is the very life of God and by the Spirit we are made alive to God the coming of

the Spirit at Pentecost is also the fullness the revelation of the Trinity God in three persons Father Son and Holy Spirit in the church calendar Pentecost Sunday is followed by the celebration of Trinity Sunday in the unfolding of our

salvation God has now fully revealed himself as the father who in love purposed our salvation and the son who accomplished our salvation and the spirit who makes our salvation personal Francis puts an end to hallo activism in a Christian life I understand then that

my whole Christian existence begins with the work of the Spirit to unite me to Christ to reassure me that I am loved and to make me God's own child God breathes into me the breath of life again as he did it to Adam and I become

a living being standing upright in the presence of divine glory before we go out into the world as ambassadors for Christ we must be in corporate in Christ by the spirit how do we respond to this we prayed

spirit of the Living God fall afresh on me melt me mold me fill me use me spirit of the Living God fall afresh on me [Music] identity is a crucial issue for all of us we spend our Christian lives in many

ways recovering from poor identity Romans chapter 8 speaks about the fact that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of adoption and by the Spirit we cry out Abba Father or dad we rediscover God as our perfect father and the one who can

heal our wounds and who also imparts a sense of of who we are in Christ it's ironic that the more we get to know Christ and more understand ourselves to be people in Christ participating in the life of the cry of Christ the more we

come to know who we are I think our life in the spirit is the non-negotiable it's the definition of what does it mean to be a Christian is to be a spirit person and so I think the faithfulness

of Jesus life by the Spirit is the life that he's trying to give to us individually and community that we participate with him by the spirit - - in at one level to primarily equip the life of the church so that we see the

things that God is doing we see the empowering of healing and the restoration of the life that God is promising in our own midst to empower us and strengthen us to be those who serve and give that away and welcome those

into this Communion and fellowship that has been waiting for them before the creation of the world the first way in which you enter into the life of the Spirit is by coming to know Christ at the moment of conversion as some of us

can identify that moment really clearly and others others of us it's more like a process but at the point in which we exercise faith in Jesus and discover ourselves to be in Christ and profess that Jesus is Lord the Holy Spirit

indwells us I think we become aware as we grow in the Christian life of areas of our lives that need to be surrendered to Christ areas of our life where we need healing areas of our life where there's a need for overcoming particular

sins and and and tendencies to to sin and the Holy Spirit comes to us in fresh ways in those moments I also leave the Holy Spirit visits the church in special ways in seasons of renewal and revival and have

experienced some of that myself we spoken a lot about the personal and dwelling of the Spirit but we really should think first of all of the church was the Holy Spirit indwells the church we experienced the Holy Spirit afresh in

seasons when when the church rediscovers I think life in the spirit [Music] so there are two divine movements recounted at the beginning of the book of Acts the Ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven for the Mount of Olives and the

descent of the promised Holy Spirit from heaven in the upper room in Jerusalem these two movements Jesus ascent and the spirits descent describe what Charles Williams calls a kind of divine trigonometry a triangle the ascent of the Messiah and the descent of the Dove

the book of Acts begins with the Ascension of Jesus to the Father as the beginning of the reign of Jesus now as the time of Jesus rain from heaven Jesus pours out his spirit and sovereignly directs the mission in the ministry of

the church to the end of time in his pentecost sermon Peter declares to the astonished onlookers God has raised this jesus to life and we are all witnesses of the fact exalted to the right hand of God he has received from the father the

promised Holy Spirit and poured out what you now see and hear the words and works of Jesus will now be continued on earth through his church as his body this is the story of the book of the Acts of the

Apostles this democratization of the Spirit filling all believers unites them into a people a body a temple a nation of prophets priests and kings God's newly restored image bearers the new Israel of God there is a centripetal work of the spirit binding Christians to

each other this is what the spirit does pulls us in and toward the center the immediate result of Pentecost is a remarkably profound experience of community including economic community in the sharing of goods spiritual community in fellowship and prayer

Eucharistic community in the breaking of bread gospel community and coming under the Apostles teaching at devotional community in their common joyful praise and adoration of God but there is also of course a centrifugal work of the spirit that sends believers

outward to share joyfully in the continuing mission of Jesus in his post-resurrection appearance to his gathered disciples Jesus had said as the father has sent me I am sending you we get to share in the divine mission to

the world and then he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit this is the Spirit's work a centrifugal work and this centrifugal work of the Spirit is again the story of the book of Acts from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria to the

ends of the earth this divine life into which we are immersed by the Spirit is a life with a definite form to be spiritual for Paul was not to have your head in the clouds or to have some sort

of remote indifference from the world it was simply to be filled with the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Christ to keep in step with the Holy Spirit to live by moment in the Holy Spirit this is the working of not just any spirit this is

the working of the Holy Spirit holiness is the life of God himself in first Peter the link between new life and new lifestyle becomes the theme of his whole letter resurrection life resurrection lifestyle and Peter traces in particular

what it looks like to live holy lives as resident aliens expatriates or guests in a hostile culture in civic life in economic life and in family life we are called to be a community of difference in our culture as in all that we do all

that we suffer all that we say we seek to conform to the model of Jesus Christ [Music] it's important for every Christian to be part of a community I think actually that the concept of a an unchurched Christian for me as the ultimate

oxymoron I know we don't have a perfect church I know the church has struggles but we're called to be in community so if you belong to Christ you belong to everyone else who's in Christ and the whole idea that we could somehow live

the Christian life in an individual way is foreign to the New Testament it's foreign to the way of thinking of Jesus it does take humility to go to church and yet it's so crucial to our growth we work with God in the church to build up

the body of Christ and we are the scattered church and we carry the gospel we carry justice we carry Shalom into the world participating with God and his work in the world so I think in that wonderful intersection of being

resurrection people is to sort of say well what are we doing if you are raining if you are present how do we listen how do we follow you how do we anticipate that the kingdom is among us and how do we have eyes to see by the

spirit what you're doing if you make a lot of decisions in their life where you rely on the spirit to call you I had the opportunity to work as a consultant in clinical ethics at in Hong Kong for several years and there I have

to decide on a lot of ethical issues pertaining to life and death and there is nothing black and white about that I recognize that the Holy Spirit speaks to us speaking through the scriptures speaking through your conscience and

sleeping through a group of brothers and sisters do you have close fellowship with personally and professionally I I don't think I haven't come to a live situation I cannot resolve with this three approaches [Music] after Pentecost the Lord Himself was

daily adding to their number those who were being saved the Abrahamic and Israelite calling to bless and to gather all nations was being now fulfilled while the continuing history of the church bears this out the story continues as the apostolic

preaching of the gospel went east to persia and india south towards ethiopia west toward italy and spain by the sixth century the gospel moved north of the alps and with the great european migrations beginning in the 16th century

the gospel moved across the atlantic the amazing story of the last two centuries has been at the gospel moving powerfully deeply taking root in asia africa and latin america the missional centrifugal work of the Spirit in the church has

continued down the centuries across the continents as the miracle of Pentecost goes on and people hear the Apostolic message each in their own language hue has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches we would be wise as

we seek to live the story now in our generation as participants we would be wise to be those who listen to what the Spirit says to the churches we all need what CS Lewis wrote about when he said we need to keep the clean

sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds the spirit did not stop his working when the ink dried on the pages of the New Testament if we do not know the history of the church its successes in its failures we will be

captive to our own age to its values and its assumptions written in letters too large for us to read there is a true wisdom and a grace to be found in what all Christians at all times and in all

places have believed there is a sets of the faithful through time a consensus fidelium and we would be wise as we reframe our understanding of the biblical story to be rooted in this broad and deep sense of the

faithful through the history of the church our brothers and sisters from long ago and far away are part of the one Church of Jesus Christ as Christians I remind you some of our best friends are dead when you travel to a foreign

country you begin to see your home country in a new light to see clearly the attitudes that you had before taken for granted same thing happens with time travel to see what prayer meant for Christians in the Egyptian desert in the

fourth century this exposes how anemic our prayers have become today how little we settle for in prayer to see the missionary zeal of Christians north and south of the Alps when the old Christian Roman civilization was decaying well

this challenges us not to be too nostalgic about the loss of Christian influence in our society today but to look expectantly to the future to what new things God might yet do seeing the astounding confidence of the Reformers

of the 16th century in the power of God's Word to give life well this renews our assurance that this same word will continue to give life to people today no matter how dark the times observing William Wilberforce and his friends

bring the gospel to bear in political life to end the slave trade well this provokes us to gospel creativity in addressing the social problems of our own times as we offer up all of our work all of our vocations in

the world as a part of the work of God's own Kingdom don't get me wrong the church made many mistakes too and listening to how the Spirit has been speaking to the churches means also to hear the spirits grieving

in time past and time present is all too possible to be captive to the spirit of the age rather than to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ but as we look to the spirit to fill us to make us ambassadors to our

culture today we will need the manifold wisdom of the Spirit the many gifts of the Spirit given to the whole church across time and space modernity cuts us off from the past the spirit reconnects us to the whole story there are a lot of

similarities between what we see in church history and what we see in Scripture the scripture is remarkably honest about the shortcomings of the people of God and church historians have to be honest about the shortcomings that the people of God that does mean that

isn't working in Scripture or not working this through the church well there are many parts the church the story that we are not proud of today there are periods in the church's history that need to be critiqued but we

have a story that is correctable by Scripture and that I think is one of the great things within Christianity is that we have a church which always wants to be reforming itself if we don't learn from history we we keep on making the

same mistakes so history is not just something for history buffs history is is very significant some things that we definitely do not want to have happen again and others that we really could learn from to incarnate today and move

us far away there is a huge story that's largely untold about the positive impact of the church in culture I think today there's such a strong bias in our society against religion in general and Christianity in particular so there are

many examples I think of positive social change brought about by Christian action whether it's in politics or healthcare or science that we can go back to as models for how we engage culture today probably the greatest shift in the

history of Christianity has occurred since 900 in 1900 Christiana was largely a white Western religion now it is the leading religion of the non Western the world I think for Westerners it's difficult for us to appreciate that we

are no longer in the driver's seat in global Christianity that the average Christian is now a black woman in Nigeria leadership of the global church is coming from the global south we go to learn when we go to foreign cultures not

to impart our wisdom to them the beauty of the global church is that our culture our context our histories allow us to see certain things but we're blind to some others inevitably we we don't have the whole picture and so

being able to hear and read scripture and read God's work in the world through his Spirit through the eyes of people that have very different experiences can only enrich us so friends what is our place in this fifth act of the story as

God continues to move the story on consider Hebrews eleven and twelve the author wants his readers to understand faith and so he begins as we've begun with creation and tells of the patriarchs faith continues in an unbroken chain from Abel and Enoch to

Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob through Joseph and Moses to the faith of Israel passing through the Red Sea as on dry land from the exodus to the conquest and on through Israel's history into Maccabean history and the martyrs of

Second Temple Judaism women and men continue to trust God as he moved the story on until it reached the present so what is the point of knowing this story it is this since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us

throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us knowing the story is good reframing the story is good but there's something even better living the story you too are part of the

Christian story the gift of the Holy Spirit has made every one of us participants [Music] very lamb had reframed understanding of the biblical story but struggled to fully live it out they will said that no point in my life

that I walk into joyful issue is for people who majority are physically mentally disabled it was so transforming the experience of seeing God through their eyes also seeing people not as functional people but we all have handicaps it's just some obvious some

are not obvious but seeing every individual is gifted in his or her way God taught me through the joy fellowship experience to value people differently now I always try to think what are the gifts this person bring to this

situation it's almost like learning to being an accountant all over again what does that mean what does it look like crucial in helping Mary has been the ongoing friendship of a group of women she's been meeting with for over 10

years whenever Dale struggles challenges at work there to what I call I'm the one that they would call because who else do you call to discuss this issue I'm a middle manager so I have to report up and dairy are not as patient or

compassion about whatever you're trying to think of value they just want results so to this day we can still talk about that but the biggest part about learning to allow the role the Holy Spirit to work in my life was really through my

contemplative prayer one day where I was at this prayer retreat and I was doing my own taking a walk in the woods I was in this wide-open field and awesome me I felt God was telling me you're my child I love you you don't

have to do anything I delight in you and finally that woman I got it I got it and I started running around to feel literally like a three-year-old child just basking in that love not having to do anything and joy like a joy like this

is joyful this is that relationship with God changed forever finally really understanding that my identities as a child of God God loves me as I am that was a very important turning point in my life I needed to experience that for

myself they're not only free me it gave me a confidence and I never really have it because no one can take that identity for me when I'm working in the right way along God in its nature it's the better

way to work I don't know why I keep forgetting it's true in this episode we've seen how the Holy Spirit connects believers with the love of Christ so that we can know we are God's children we experience good in

different ways some of us have a breakthrough moment while others experience a gradual change but whatever your particular experience is it's the Holy Spirit that connects our story to God's story [Music]