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The Holy Spirit & Public Square

Public Trinity

There are happenings, efforts or trends of varying degrees and directions in our local, state, national, regional, and global society that result in the removal, misrepresentation or abuse of imprints, testimonies or influences of God in public square, amidst various paradigms of society, church and state relation.  Take heart in knowing that God by nature is social in trinitarian relation within the Godhead, therefore intrinsically public from eternity, through time, to eternity, whose divine signature of signs and wonders by the Finger of God - the Holy Spirit - no one can blur, erase or obliterate amidst growing confusion, conflict and corruption in the world today. It is out of this spontaneous overflow of divine inherent publicness of immeasurable fullness of divine character that God in sheer freedom willed to create, communicate and commune with us, both "personally" in divine whisper of conviction and assurance, and "publicly" in divine spectacle of demonstration and manifestation, of the love of the Father, the grace of Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. 
 

The Gospel of Public Square

The Gospel or the Good News of the Father's overflowing love to humanity, and therefore our Ministry, cannot be sufficiently described without the term "public", evidenced from the Public Ministry of Jesus Christ to the Acts of the Holy Spirit in and through the Believers.  Thus, the saving and transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ is in substance, form and manner, an authentic permeating public message in Spirit, Word and Acts, intended for and apprehensible by all despite diversity in background, circumstance, presupposition, party, religion, and ideology.  As sin, darkness and corruption pervade human hearts, relationships and socio-economic-political structures in all ways of life, the independent and engaged Holy Spirit is the only counter and transforming Agent in diverse publics of church, religion, community, government, corporation, academia, media, social network, etc., who can usher in true Freedom, Empowerment and Hope.  No person or specific public is exempt from the Holy Spirit's ongoing work of transformation through the Reign of God in Christ Jesus in our deeply fragmented and rapidly disintegrating society.

Politics of the Spirit

In the Politics of the Kingdom of God, our uncompromising "unity" is based on the character of the Holy Spirit producing fruit of divine life, and our genuine "diversity" is based on the indescribable richness of the Spirit's empowering gifts toward service - upon and for all peoples of various ethnicities and cultures - void of all forms of racism and inter racial animosity or indifference, and without heirarchal view of gender, age and social status, in participation of Trinitarian life in divine love, countering all forms of inhumanity, oppression and injustice. In cases of fundamental difference particularly on social issues we are behooved by the Holy Spirit to be only tempered and motivated by love, purity, humility and service unto others. Unabated by our real and complex differences, including our limited, competing or conflicting policies and methods, the Holy Spirit desires to infuse all aspects and recesses of our lives so that He fills to the overflowing our hearts and lives in various publics of His renewing, reviving, re/trans-forming Presence to be the salt and light of this world. We thereby become ourselves ongoing "objects", not just "means" and "agents" in the Spirit, of genuine and lasting transformation, prophetic inside and out of our respective overlapping and interelated communities of publics, partisan only against sin permeating all of social life, therefore an authentic, potent, and unsilenceable public witness of God's love, peace, justice, righteousness in the land, affecting the whole created order until the Return of Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords of the Public Square. 

 

"The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit."  - William J. Seymour

"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth 
 

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