Episode 65: Talking Trinity, Part 2: God the Father

In their ongoing series exploring the Christian idea of God as Trinity (Three Persons in One), pastors Erica and Steve start to look at what it has meant classically to speak about God as "Father," and what it doesn't? mean.  Using Jesus' intimate language of calling God "Abba," which has the feeling of a young child speaking with a caring parent, Christians are drawn into a particular image of how we relate to God--not of employee to boss, not of simply students to teachers, and not of groveling subjects toward egomaniacal tyrants fearful of punishment, but of trusting dependence.  We'll also be looking at how the church has classically understood the relationship of the First Person of the Trinity with the God of Israel, and how classically Christians have insisted that Christ the Son and the Spirit are present at creation and throughout the story of the universe, too.  How do we deal with "Father" language if we have had bad fathers, absent fathers, or had to end up caring for fathers later in life?  Join us for the conversation, as we try and unpack some of these big ideas of the Christian faith.