Name: EP66: Healing Us and Our World: Baxter Kruger's Trinitarian Vision Pt 2 - Gracearchy with Jim Babka
Uploaded: 2023-09-14T07:00:00+00:00
Duration: 50 min 24 s
Description: Have you ever been told you're separated from God, that there's an inherent evil within you that makes God turn away? While such beliefs have provided comfort to some, they've also caused rifts and ju

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Have you ever been told you're separated from God, that there's an inherent evil within you that makes God turn away? While such beliefs have provided comfort to some, they've also caused rifts and justified cruelty. In this episode, we shatter the myth of separation from God and embark on a transformative journey.

Join Jim and Bill as they converse with Baxter Kruger in our enlightening series, 'The Trinitarian Vision'. This installment, titled 'Healing Us and Our World', travels to the depth of your soul and finds God's predestined plan. The stunning result is Love that draws us together and enables us to practice grace - the healing of us and our world.

The Trinitarian Vision
©C. Baxter Kruger, Ph. D., 2010
Reprinted with permission, PART 2 (of 2)

- See Part 1 of "The Trinitarian Vision" in the show notes of Episode 65 -

When Adam and Eve rebelled, ushering chaos and misery into God's creation, the Father, Son, and Spirit never abandoned Their dream, but wonderfully incorporated darkness and sin into the tapestry of the coming incarnation.

As the Father's Son became human, and as He submitted Himself to bear our anger and bizarre blindness, and as He gave Himself to suffer a murderous death at our hands, He established a real and abiding relationship with fallen humanity at our very worst – and He brought His Father and the Holy Spirit with Him. It was in Jesus Himself, and in His death at our bitter hands, that the Trinitarian life of God pitched its tent in our hell on earth, thereby uniting all that the Father, Son, and Spirit share with all that we are in our brokenness, shame, and sin – adoption.

In the life and death of Jesus, the Holy Spirit made Her way into human pain and blindness. Inside our broken inner worlds, the Spirit works to reveal Jesus in us so that we can meet Jesus Himself in our own sin and shame, and begin to see what Jesus sees and know His Father with Him.

The Holy Spirit takes of Jesus and discloses it to us, so that we can know and experience Jesus's own relationship with His Father, and we can be free to live in the Father's embrace with Jesus. As the Spirit works, we are summoned to take sides with Jesus against our own darkness and prejudice, and take simple steps of trust and change. As we do, Jesus's own anointing with the Spirit – His own fellowship with His Father, His own unearthly assurance, His own freedom and joy and power in the Spirit – begin to form in us, while not diminishing but augmenting and freeing our own uniqueness as persons.

The Spirit's passion is to bring Her anointing of Jesus to full and personal and abiding expression in us as unique persons, and not only in us personally but in our relationship with the Father in Jesus, and in our relationships with one another and indeed with all creation, until the whole cosmos is a living sacrament of the Great dance of the triune God.

Timeline
0:00 Intro
2:10 What is our darkness?
4:04 What is righteousness?
7:19 No government required because...
10:35 Knowing the Father as Christ does
12:31 The importance of fatherhood
17:31 The mean angry father as seen on a blanket
19:25 The Father's strategy to get around Religion
22:29 Adoption, the predestined plan
25:21 What to do with this info, Abide
29:34 How human vocation expresses Trinity
35:44 John 14:20, In you
38:52 Participating in the Trinity
42:50 Paul Young's story, and The Shack
44:10 Perichoresis: Books and Courses