{"id":21893,"date":"2022-12-08T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21893"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:59:57","slug":"faith-as-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21893","title":{"rendered":"Faith as Participation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Danny Gokey - Haven&#039;t Seen It Yet (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sceJ9GLoxjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard reminds us that believing \u201cin\u201d Jesus really means participating in the faith <\/em>of <em>Jesus:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Many scholars over the years have pointed out that what is usually translated in Paul\u2019s letters as \u201cfaith<em> in<\/em> Christ\u201d would be more accurately translated as \u201cthe faith <em>of <\/em>Christ.\u201d It\u2019s more than a change of prepositions. It means we are all participating in the faith journey that Jesus has already walked. We are forever carried inside of the \u201cCorporate Personality<\/strong>\u201d that Christ always is for Paul (check out 1 Corinthians 12:12\u201331 for starters). That\u2019s a very different understanding of faith than most Christians consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Christians think having faith means \u201cto believe <em>in<\/em> Jesus.\u201d <strong>But \u201cto share in the faith <em>of <\/em>Jesus\u201d is a much richer concept. It is not so much an invitation as <em>it is<\/em> <em>a cosmic declaration about the very shape of reality<\/em>. By myself, I don\u2019t know <em>how<\/em> to have faith in God, but once we know that Jesus is the corporate stand-in for everybody, we know we have already been taken on the ride through death and back to life. <\/strong>All we can do now is make what is objectively true fully conscious in ourselves. <strong>We are all participating in Jesus\u2019 faith walk with varying degrees of resistance and consent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father Richard reminds us that having faith is not something that we have to do on our own:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, <strong>it\u2019s God in us that loves God. We on our own don\u2019t really know how to love God. It\u2019s Christ in us that recognizes Christ. It\u2019s the Holy Spirit, whose temple we are (see 1 Corinthians 3:16), that responds to the Holy Spirit. Like recognizes like. That\u2019s why all true cognition is really recognition (\u201cre-cognition\u201d or knowing something again). Only insofar as we have surrendered to Christ and allowed the Christ in us to come to fullness can we love Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFaith\u201d is not an affirmation of a creed, an intellectual acceptance of God, or believing certain doctrines to be true or orthodox (although those things might well be good). Yet many Christians have whittled faith down to that. Such faith does not usually change our heart or our lifestyle. <strong>I\u2019m convinced that much modern atheism is a result of such a heady and ineffective definition of faith. We defined faith intellectually, so people came up with intellectual arguments against it and then said, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Both Jesus\u2019 and Paul\u2019s notion of faith is much better translated as foundational <em>confidence <\/em>or <em>trust that God cares about what is happening right now. <\/em><\/strong>This is clearly the quality that Jesus fully represents and then praises in other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God refuses to be known intellectually. <strong>God can only be loved and known in the act of love; God can only be experienced in communion. This is why Jesus \u201ccommands\u201d us to move toward love and fully abide there.<\/strong> Love is like a living organism, an active force-field upon which we can rely, from which we can draw, and we can allow to pass through us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your needs and My riches are the perfectly<\/strong> fit. I carefully crafted your longings and feelings of incompleteness to point to Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do not try to bury these feelings; take note and surrender, connect and live out of that. Come to Me in all your neediness and find completeness i<\/strong>n Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippians 4:19 \u201cBut my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Iesus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colossians 2:2-3 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 84:11-12 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard reminds us that believing \u201cin\u201d Jesus really means participating in the faith of Jesus: Many scholars over the years have pointed out that what is usually translated in Paul\u2019s letters as \u201cfaith in Christ\u201d would be more accurately translated as \u201cthe faith of Christ.\u201d It\u2019s more than a change of prepositions. 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