The Axiom Church Podcast

We close our series on Anabaptism by opening it up to our community for questions.

Anabaptist study the bible to better follow Jesus. He is their ultimate authority.

In the 16^th century the world went through a seismic shift in the wake of the printing press and what emerged from it is at the heart of our own story, the Anabaptist. In this series we look back to these roots as we try to find our grounding in today’s global transformation. We set our minds to the things of Jesus that captured the hearts of our spiritual forerunners.

On Pentecost Sunday we looked at what Jesus says about the Spirit of God and how we will experience the Spirit. 

Jesus saw and understood that humanity was living in a false reality. This false reality was adorned with shrines, values, religion, devotion and all the things necessary to uphold this upside down world. In order to help those that desire to live in the Kingdom of God to see, hear and be he came to us using parables as a preferred way for unfolding the truth in order to lead us to new life. As we revisit with Jesus and his teachings on the Kingdom of God may we find ourselves shepherded out of the culture wars and firmly planted with Jesus in the Kingdom of God.

Here Jesus sharply contrasts the Kingdom of the Heavens and the Kingdom of man demonstrating that his powers from above are sufficient for life here on Earth amongst mankind. 

Matthew 13:24-30

Each person appropriately formed under the Kingdom of God can be set free in His world empowered to do what they want to do in proportion to the person they have become. Pastor Erik shares on this.

Jesus saw and understood that humanity was living in a false reality. This false reality was adorned with shrines, values, religion, devotion and all the things necessary to uphold this upside down world. In order to help those that desire to live in the Kingdom of God to see, hear and be he came to us using parables as a preferred way for unfolding the truth in order to lead us to new life. As we revisit with Jesus and his teachings on the Kingdom of God may we find ourselves shepherded out of the culture wars and firmly planted with Jesus in the Kingdom of God.

The first week of Lent begins with John the Baptist. He is not the Christ but he is the one who prepares our hearts for Christ. “Repent and be baptized”. Everyone, must be made new by joining Jesus in the baptismal of life, death and resurrection. 

Rest is central to our life and experience with God. To truly rest we must confront our conditions of unrest. Jesus fully displays and invites a kind of life where rest is possible.