Holy Spirit Role in Church Formation
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
12:27 PM
"Christians believe and confess with the Creed that there is an indissoluble link between the work of God in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and the reality of the Church"
Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as It Is Confessed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010. Kindle Version, Pg 69.
I find the wording strange… but I agree with the sentence.
There is a link between God working in Christ and through the Spirit and this should be a reality within the Church. We should be experiencing that same work of God.
The paragraph says...
“The origin of the church is rooted in the plan of the Triune God for humankind’s salvation.”
I think this is sloppy theology. It would mean God always planned on man failing in the Garden, or that salvation is plan B because plan A failed. I know what they mean… but I don’t think they realize what they could mean by their word choice here.
I would say “for a relationship with humanity” instead of “for humankind’s salvation.”
The most helpful sentence in this paragraph was the final one that cited John’s great commission (John 20:19-23).  The mission of the Church is to continue that work of Jesus through the power of the Spirit.