Friends,

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!

Yesterday we focused on the community of the Holy Spirit. Our entry point was a look at Paul’s famous “love chapter” — 1 Corinthians 13. That passage, it turns out, is about love in the church, and only secondarily can be applied to things like love in a marriage.

See below for links, and a note about Rublev’s “The Trinity.” Click above to listen to an audio summary of the session (about 15 minutes long).

And click here to take a short survey about how the study went — and how I can make them more effective next time.

Resources

* Video Recording (AM)

* Slides

* Reading Plan

The Art of Paul

I shared this image of Andrei Rublev’s famed Trinity icon (early 15th century). Inspired by the story of the three angels that visited Abraham in Genesis 18, it has become customary to think about and portray these angels as a type of Old Testament Trinity. The figure on the left represents God the Father, the one in the middle represents God the Son, and the figure on the right represents God the Holy Spirit. As is often the case in iconography, the lines of perspective conjoin not in the back of the image (as is typical in most Western art), but in front of the image — this is meant to draw the viewer into the scene. In other words, Rublev intended you to see this image and feel yourself drawn into it, as if you are invited to sit at the fourth side of this table and commune with the Triune God.

You can read more about Rublev’s icon on Wikipedia.

For Next Week

That’s all for this Paul Bible study. Thank you so much for being a part of it; I enjoyed being on this journey with each of you! Don’t forget to take the survey to let me know how it went and how to make these studies better in the future.

Until then, I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend — he is risen!

In Christ,

Pastor Cabe

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