Becoming a Spiritual Community - Part 2

Here's Part 2 of Larry Crabb's session:

When reading the Bible, we must not come to the text with our questions but listening to the questions God wants to answer. Questions like....
1. Who is God? God is a community.
2. What’s he up to? Teaching us to move with Him. We are often too afraid of intimacy with the Holy Spirit to let him teach us how to dance.
3. Who are we? Gendered image bearers, bearing the image of God.
4. What’s gone wrong? Sin.
5. What has God done? Providing change coming from looking bad in the presence of love. Providing forgiveness.
6. What is the Spirit doing today? Lifting our denial of desire. Showing us we were built for another world. Until we are empty, thirsty, desiring to see Him. Lifting denial of guilt. So that we value Jesus more than anything else.
7. How do we tag along with the Spirit? Through spiritual community.

The Practice of Spiritual Community
What does it look like to participate in the inner life of the Trinity and to carry that life into our relationships?
It looks like reaching with supernatural power into the depths of another person’s heart so that the evil in our hearts that rules so often unrecognized in how we relate is clearly identified and exposed as hateful. The Holy Spirit is given full permission to release our appetite for the Father. Our reality is not God's reality. God wants to show us our reality until we are helpless before him.

God’s Reality: The Trinity - The Church - Our Reality: Seen and Unseen

How does God’s reality become my reality? - Through the Church. He forms us by how we relate to each other.

How to relate to each other:
We must enter the battle raging beneath the surface. We need to look deeper at the battle between the flesh and Spirit as we relate to each other. Rom 8:7
We must see the vision in the mind of God for the person we are relating to.
We must touch the soul with the Spirit’s power that works in us.