Affect, Ethics, and Cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Hannah R. K. Mather
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
The Holy Spirit

Abstract This article considers the Spirit’s role in the interpretation of Scripture, otherwise known as pneumatic interpretation. It outlines that whilst we may approach scripture seeking to interpret its written truth, the Spirit’s concern is with so much more than just our minds. Thus, pneumatic interpretation is holistic and cannot be restricted to interpretation of the scriptural text. The Spirit always works through and beyond the written words, seeking to interpret and appropriate scriptural truth affectively, ethically, and cognitively in our lives in ways that align with Scripture and transform us holistically into knowledge of and relationship with God as Father, Son, and Spirit. However, within this lies a paradox that whilst the Holy Spirit of God is all-powerful, discernment and reception of truth brought by the Spirit through Scripture (or in ways leading towards Scripture) is either helped or hindered by ethical action and choice.

Becoming Whole After Addiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton R. Hall Jr., PhD
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Biblical Counseling ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Holy Ghost ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Women And Children

There is an epidemic facing our nation, and like so many other problems it has entered our churches as well, it is the epidemic of addiction. Today all over America, regardless of denomination, our pews are full of men, women, and children who are trapped in the dilemma of addiction. There is only one answer for their dilemma, Jesus. But like so many other sin, many who come to Jesus and achieve abstinence, continue to struggle with their evil desires. Christ-centered, biblically based counseling is needed to guide them to a stronger relationship with God. The purpose of this paper is to show that Christ-Centered recovery through biblical counseling can produces genuine change in the heart of the addict. It proves that the only way for the addict to be free is to find a power, a power that is beyond themselves, that can free them from addiction. That power, is the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the risen indwelling presence of Jesus Christ. But the only way that this power can rest upon them, they only way it can deliver them, is for them to confess their weakness and inability to resolve the dilemma of addiction on their own. Through Biblical evidence, I will show that for many the only way to be made whole from the effects of addiction is through a process that produces genuine healing and peace. I will outline a biblical approach to 12-step recovery and show how Christ-centered recovery will lead the addict to discover freedom from addiction through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. It will also show that this process strengthens the addict’s relationship with God, and how that restored relationship leads to lifetime sobriety through repentance and submission to God’s will.

scholarly journals Kajian terhadap Fenomena Dipenuhi Roh Kudus Berdasarkan Efesus 5:18-21

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jacob Timisela
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Right Relationship ◽  
Correct Understanding

This study aims to present biblical facts about the consequences when believers are filled with the Holy Spirit based on Ephesians 5: 18-21. Some people are taught that people who are filled with the Holy Spirit must be able to speak in tongues or what is called tongues. This research is qualitative research using the method of exegesis and inductive exposition approach to Ephesians 5: 18-21, so that its contents are expected to provide input in the form of the correct understanding of the consequences of being filled with the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. As a result, being filled with the Holy Spirit results in believers having a right relationship with God, and having a relationship and communication spiritually and effectively with others, both in words and in attitudes of life, so that they are not limited to understanding that, filled with the Holy Spirit can result in someone having to be able to speak in tongues or in tongues. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyajikan fakta alkitabiah tentang akibat apabila orang percaya dipenuhi dengan Roh Kudus berdasarkan Efesus 5:18-21. Sebagian umat diajarkan bahwa, orang-orang yang dipenuhi dengan Roh Kudus itu harus dapat berkata-kata dalam bahasa roh atau yang disebut sebagai bahasa lidah. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode pendekatan eksegesis dan eksposisi secara induktif terhadap Efesus 5:18-21, sehingga hasinya diharapkan dapat memberikan masukan berupa pemahaman yang benar tentang akibat dipenuhi dengan Roh Kudus dalam kehidupan orang percaya. Hasilnya, dipenuhi dengan Roh Kudus mengakibatkan orang percaya memiliki hubungan secara benar dengan Tuhan, dan memiliki hubungan dan komunikasi secara rohani dan efektif dengan yang sesamanya, baik dalam perkataan maupun dalam hal sikap hidup, sehingga tidak hanya dibatasi pada pemahaman bahwa, dipenuhi dengan Roh Kudus dapat mengakibatkan seseorang harus bisa berbahasa roh atau bahasa lidah.

scholarly journals DOA PUASA DI ANTARA KEPEMIMPINAN PENGGEMBALAAN, ROH KUDUS, DAN PERTUMBUHAN GEREJA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Sewie Elia Huang
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Church

Abstract Fasting prayer has a very significant role for the growth of faith and congregation in the growth of the church because fasting prayer is their intimate relationship with God. The purpose of this paper answers the question: What is meant by fasting prayer? What is the relationship between fasting prayer and the Holy Spirit? What is the relationship between fasting prayer and shepherding leadership? What is the relation of fasting prayer in the growth of the Church? The research method uses descriptive literature research. The results of the study are: (1) fasting prayer is abstaining from all physical food for other bodies describing the consequences of fasting, namely: "suffering of the soul". (2) the relationship of fasting prayer with the Holy Spirit is fasting prayer which brings clarity of the way, the voice of the spirit, so that it will be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit to provide guidance in obtaining spiritual and material victory as well. (3) the relationship of fasting prayer with the leadership of the shepherding is a servant of God who truly is a servant of God whose life of prayer is accompanied by fasting. (4) the relation of fasting prayer in the growth of the Church is the pastoral service can help realize the need for maturity and encourage growth in spirituality.AbstrakDoa puasa mempunyai peran yang sangatlah signifikan bagi pertumbuhan iman dan jemaatnya dalam pertumbuhan gereja karena doa puasa merupakan hubungan intim mereka dengan Allah. Tujuan penulisan ini menjawab pertanyaan: Apakah yang dimaksud dengan doa puasa? Bagaimanakah relasi doa puasa dengan Roh Kudus? Bagaimanakah relasi doa puasa dengan kepemimpinan pengembalaan? Bagaimanakah relasi doa puasa dalam pertumbuhan Gereja? Metode penelitian menggunakan penelitian deskriptif literature. Hasil penelitian adalah: (1) doa puasa adalah berpantang dengan semua makanan jasmani untuk tubuh yang lain menggambarkan akibat berpuasa, yaitu: “penderitaan jiwa”. (2) relasi doa puasa dengan Roh Kudus adalah doa puasa mendatangkan kejernihan jalan, akan suara roh, sehingga akan peka dengan suara Roh Kudus untuk memberikan bimbingan memperoleh kemenangan rohani dan materi juga. (3) relasi doa puasa dengan kepemimpinan pengembalaan adalah seorang hamba Tuhan yang sungguh sungguh adalah hamba Tuhan yang hidup doanya disertai puasa. (4) relasi doa puasa dalam pertumbuhan Gereja adalah pelayanan penggembalaan dapat menolong menyadari kebutuhan akan kedewasaan dan mendorong bertumbuh dalam kerohanian.

scholarly journals The narrative-theological function of Matthew's baptism command (Matthew 28:19b)

Anafora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-106
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Thellman
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stated Goal ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

The triadic name given in the baptism command of Matthew 28:19b has often been considered awkward in its context and perhaps anachronistic in light of later Christian Trinitarian doctrine. This article argues that Matthew 28:19b is rather a fitting climactic conclusion to a narrative-theological motif throughout Matthew’s Gospel where triadic or at least dyadic language is employed within revelatory contexts that affirm Jesus’ divine sonship and messianic mission: either in small apocalypses or within apocalyptic discourse. This argument finds its crux in the baptism of Jesus itself (3:13–17) which is presented as an apocalypse in which the heavenly fatherly voice reveals the identity of the Son and anoints him with his Spirit, with the stated goal of “fulfilling all righteousness.” The revelation is presented by Matthew so that it is directed to the public within the narrative and implicitly to the reader disciple. The baptism revelation is then closely associated both with the lengthy citation of Isaiah 42:1–4 in Matthew 12:18–21, another triadic text, and with the visionary transfiguration account (17:1–8). Other passages are analyzed in order to trace the pattern throughout the Gospel. In the resurrection narrative (28:1–20) it is demonstrated that the resurrected Jesus is portrayed as a now heavenly, yet still embodied, revealer who is worshipped such that the Great Commission passage (28:16–20) is presented as a divine revelation. Within this “ultimate apocalypse” the risen Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of the nations by teaching and baptizing in the triadic name. The baptism command, in light of the triadic motif throughout the Gospel has the rhetorical effect of inviting Matthew’s reader-listener disciples to identify with Jesus in his own triadic baptism such that they too have an affirmed filial relationship with God and receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit to continue and extend Jesus’ messianic mission into the world under his universal authority and with his promised presence.

Makna dan Penerapan Frasa Mata Hati yang Diterangi dalam Efesus 1:18-19

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Christ Santo
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Innermost Part ◽  
Original Language ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church ◽  
Power Of God

The Bible shows that the Ephesians who should have understood the God they worshiped were in fact still prayed by Paul so that they would have an illuminated eye of heart to know God. The focus of this research is to find out what Paul means about the enlightened eyes of the heart, why the reader of this letter needs to have the enlightened eyes of the heart, how the process of the eyes of the heart is enlightened, and what is the reason for the church today. This study used an exegesis method, by analyzing the elements of the word in the original language and in its context, so that found a principle that can be applied in today’s life. Some conclusions of this study are: Firstly, the phrase “enlightened eyes of the heart” means “it has illuminated the innermost part of man to be able to understand”. Secondly, the enlightened eyes of the heart are needed so that the reader of Ephesians grows in three ways: the hope of the call, the richness of the glory of the inheritance of the saints, and the great power of God for believers. Thirdly, to experience the enlightened eyes of the heart, one must first accept the gospel so that the Holy Spirit inhabits his heart; It is this indwelling Holy Spirit that makes the eyes of the person’s heart enlightened. Fourthly, Christians are not enough to stop accepting the gospel and their recognition of Christ, he needs to know God more deeply; for that he needs the Holy Spirit which enables him to understand his relationship with God so that he has an attitude of life in accordance with the available grace.AbstrakAlkitab menunjukkan bahwa jemaat Efesus yang seharusnya sudah mengerti tentang Allah yang mereka sembah, ternyata masih didoakan oleh Paulus agar mereka memiliki mata hati yang diterangi untuk dapat mengenal Allah. Fokus dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menjelaskan apa maksud frasa: “mata hati yang diterangi”, mengapa pembaca surat ini perlu memiliki mata hati yang diterangi, bagaimana proses mata hati yang diterangi, dan apa aplikasinya bagi gereja masa kini. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksegesis, yaitu dengan menganalisis unsur frasa tersebut dalam bahasa aslinya dan konteks­nya. sehingga ditemukan prinsip yang dapat diaplikasikan dalam kehidupan masa kini. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah: Pertama, frasa “mata hati yang diterangi” memiliki pengertian “telah di­teranginya bagian terdalam dari manusia untuk sanggup mengerti”.  Kedua, mata hati yang diterangi diperlukan agar pembaca surat Efesus bertumbuh dalam tiga hal pengetahuan, yaitu pengharapan akan panggilan, kekayaan kemulia­an warisan bagi orang-orang kudus, dan kebesaran yang luar biasa dari kekuatan kuasa Allah bagi orang-orang yang percaya. Ketiga, untuk mengalami mata hati yang di­terangi, seseorang terlebih dulu harus menerima Injil sehingga Roh Kudus mendiami hatinya; Roh Kudus yang mendiami inilah yang membuat mata hati orang tersebut diterangi. Keempat, orang Kristen tidak cukup berhenti pada penerimaan Injil dan pengakuannya akan Kristus, ia perlu mengenal Allah lebih dalam; untuk itu ia memerlukan Roh Kudus yang me­mampukannya mengerti hubung­an dirinya dengan Allah sehingga memiliki sikap hidup berpadanan dengan anugerah yang tersedia tersebut.

scholarly journals Pastoral juxtaposition in spiritual care: Towards a caregiving faith theology in an evangelical Christian context

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Counted ◽  
Joe R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
World Order ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Spiritual Struggles ◽  
Meaningful Connections

The problem for many troubled youths seeking help within a Christian context is that their need for meaningful connections and spiritual growth is attached to relationships with their significant others. When needs of attachment are not adequately met due to the effect of an insecure attachment working model in a relationship with God, the teen may end up leaving the faith community seeking a new caregiver or regress into spiritual struggles, depression, anxiety, self-doubt and other negative emotions. This paper responds to the issues associated with youth attachment behaviour towards God using a caregiving theology (i.e. pastoral juxtaposition) that draws on the ‘power of two’ through incarnational creativity and pneumatological ecclesiology. This proposed theology first supplements the work of the pastoral counsellor to create a transformative container through which young people, already within a redemptive Christian community, can grow spiritually and deepen their relationship with God. Secondly, pastoral juxtaposition targeting the spiritual needs of hurting youths serves to create a magnet space within the church community that models incarnational love, pastoral care and support for young people by entering their world order to reframe their personal stories of grief, abandonment and insecurity through creative means. Finally, we theologise that pastoral juxtaposition also integrates the power of the Holy Spirit, as the ultimate caregiver in times of conflict, into each youth’s unique journey of faith and healing. Implications of this pastoral theology are discussed and applied to everyday life.

‘Man Is Ill Because He Is Badly Constructed’: Artaud, Klossowski and Deleuze in Search for the Earth Inside

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Dolphijn
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
And Performance

Starting with Antonin Artaud's radio play To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, this article analyses the ways in which Artaud's idea of the body without organs links up with various of his writings on the body and bodily theatre and with Deleuze and Guattari's later development of his ideas. Using Klossowski (or Klossowski's Nietzsche) to explain how the dominance of dialogue equals the dominance of God, I go on to examine how the Son (the facialised body), the Father (Language) and the Holy Spirit (Subjectification), need to be warded off in order to revitalize the body, reuniting it with ‘the earth’ it has been separated from. Artaud's writings on Balinese dancing and the Tarahumaran people pave the way for the new body to appear. Reconstructing the body through bodily practices, through religion and above all through art, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, we are introduced not only to new ways of thinking theatre and performance art, but to life itself.

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