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Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Mark Patterson

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Julie Stockard

Speaker: Richard Clinton

March 17, 2019 Theme: Experiencing the Trinity: Ephesians 3 prayer Ephesians 3 14For this reason I kneelbefore the Father,15from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.16I pray that out of his glorious richeshe may strengthen you with powerthrough his Spirit in your inner being,17so that Christ may dwell in your heartsthrough faith. And I pray that you, being rootedand established in love,18may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,to grasp how wide and long and high and deepis the love of Christ,19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filledto the measure of all the fullness of God. 20Now to him who is ableto do immeasurably more than all we askor imagine, according to his powerthat is at work within us,21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.3 Main ‘Requests: Strengthening, Empowering, Filling Ask 1: I ask the Father to grant you out of the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner person. Ask 2: Paul prays: I ask the Father out of the riches of His glory to have Christ dwell in your hearts through faith. Ask 3: I ask the Father to grant you out of the riches of His glory, to have you rooted and grounded in love. Ask 4: I ask the Father to grant you out of the riches of His glory to be empowered to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, length, height and depth of the love of Jesus. Ask 5: I ask the Father to grant you out of the riches of His glory to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. Ask 6: I ask the Father to grant you out of the riches of His glory to be filled up to all the fullness of God. This is a big prayer because we are praying to and with a big God who is able to do immeasurably more abundantly than all we ask or imagine. Amen. Speaker: Richard Clinton

Speaker: Susanne Chladek

Speaker: Richard Clinton

Experiencing the Trinity Sermon #9: Passionate Mission“mission Dei” which means the mission of God. Jurgen Moltmann says this:“it (mission) is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church, creating a church as it goes on its way.”The triune God is Sender (Father), Sent (Son) and Sending (Holy Spirit).The eternal movement of the Father... why? ______________________________Sentness describes us. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God’s love towards people, since God is the fountain of sending love.How then do we catch the divine infection? How do we catch the passion of the Father?After Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you,” he breathed on them and said “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:21-22What’s hindering us from joining the mission in which the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are already engaged?Two main issues tend to hinder us:1. Having a church-centered approach to ministryFrogs and Lizards2. Our hesitancy to take risksJohn Wimber used to ask: do you know how to spell faith? _____________Following Jesus means that He will lead us out of our comfort zones. He will lead us into situations where we must take risks. He will lead us to take steps into unfamiliar places. Speaker: Richard Clinton

The Springs Vineyard Feb 17, 2019 Theme: Experiencing the Trinity: ParticularityParticularity: anindividualorcharacteristicfeatureortrait;peculiarity.Atomic ‘worldview’: symbolized by a group of billiard balls. Oceanic ‘worldview’: a worldview where the whole is what is important, not the individual components. A Net ‘worldview’: a worldview where personhood is defined in ‘relationship’ or connectedness to everything.Life within the Trinity which we are called to means: To be is to be in relationship. We are relational beings interconnected and our persons are defined by the connectedness. ANDParticularity or otherness is essential to personhood. Each one of us are unique, different from one another and we always will be. Why is all this important? 4 Reasons1. Celebrating and enjoy all the particularity. 2. Our eternal form of existence will be in continuity with the unique body-soul-spirit person we are now. 3. Every individual matters to God. 4. God has a plan for each one of us as individuals. Life within the Trinity is about celebrating particularity with gracious acceptance. Speaker: Richard Clinton

The Springs Vineyard Feb 10, 2019 Theme: Experiencing the Trinity: Embracing MysteryHow can the one be three or the three be one? Common metaphors: water exists as liquid, ice, steam, or an apple (peel, flesh, coreThe fact is the Trinity is a ‘mystery’. We simply can’t explain it. So what are we going to do when faced with a mystery? Romans 11: 33Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!Why is it important in our relationship to God for ‘mystery’ to exist? Gerhard Tersteegen (18th Century german mystic) “a God understood, a God comprehended, is no God!” One of the most important things to learn as we mature and grow is this: we have to learn what we __________________.Greek word for mystery: Embracing mystery and paradox: If faith needs to involve having God explain everything to us in a way we can understand it, we are going to get frustrated. And most likely, quit believing.We believe: The kingdom of God: God’s healing: Faith? One last paradox: power and weaknessGordon Fee: “Power is sometimes attested by signs and wonders and at other times by joy in great affliction.” Speaker: Richard Clinton

The Springs Vineyard Feb 3, 2019 Theme: Experiencing the Trinity: Glad Surrender 1 John 1:4 10This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.Self-sacrificing love describes the essence of how ‘love’ functions in the Trinity. Each divine person is always denying Himself for the sake of the others and deferring to the others. Glad Surrender describes how the love relationship within the Trinity functions. In the fellowship of the Trinity self-giving and self-sacrifice equals self-fulfillment and unspeakable joy. Self-giving and self-sacrifice is to describe how we are to love... God and others. Self-orientation is so deeply entrenched in our culture. The Bible calls this ‘self-centeredness’, the ‘old self’, ‘the sinful nature’ or the ‘flesh’ and there is only one solution to root this out. Kill it. Dying to self is both a crisis and a process. Simple prayer: God, look deep into me... is there anything that needs to be surrendered (or surrendered again)? Every time we face an opportunity to die to ourselves and demonstrate a willingness to live out a sacrificial, self-giving act of love... we enter into Trinitarian love AND We will find our highest sense of fulfillment, our greatest fruitfulness and our truest sense of freedom. Speaker: Richard Clinton