{"id":474,"date":"2012-06-01T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2012-06-01T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:21:02","slug":"var-_gaq-_gaq-_gaq-push_setaccount-ua-25646250-2-_gaq-push_trackpageview-function-var-ga-document-createelementscript-ga-type-textjava-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"<script type=\"text\/javascript\">    var _gaq = _gaq || [];   _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25646250-2']);   _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);    (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);   })();  <\/script>  <\/heat> The Trinity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lectionary edition of Mt. 28:19 reads: \u201cGo, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the <strong>Holy<\/strong> Spirit \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the biblical edition of the same passage reads: \u201cGo, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the <strong>holy<\/strong> Spirit \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The difference is that in the Lectionary edition the word \u201cHoly\u201d is capitalized whereas in the biblical edition the word \u201choly\u201d is lower case.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t notice the difference, you cannot ask the question, what does the difference mean.\u00a0 It should be obvious as well that reading would not reveal that difference.<\/p>\n<p>So what could this seemingly insignificant difference mean?\u00a0 It\u2019s a very subtle bit of evidence that things change, even such a thing as the Holy Spirit; well not that the Holy Spirit has changed but our understanding has.\u00a0 We might think that the disciples were the first persons to receive the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 But they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 Jesus himself received the Holy Spirit but it\u2019s more than that \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s push at this a bit.\u00a0 In the Nicene Creed that we recite at each liturgy we say of the Holy Spirit that he has spoke through the Prophets.\u00a0 Prophets lived hundreds of years before Jesus and his disciples.\u00a0 So what we have is an editor who changes the \u201choly\u201d to \u201cHoly\u201d and our church in 325 saying that the Holy Spirit spoke through the Prophets who spoke more than a thousand years before they wrote the creed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a fact that things exist long before we know that they exist and knowing that they exist may change us but not the thing.\u00a0 So here are a list of things that we are, even though we may not know it, hardly ever avert to, cannot even detect it.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>We are the People of God<\/li>\n<li>We are the adopted sons and daughters of the Father<\/li>\n<li>We are the body of Christ<\/li>\n<li>We are the Temples of the Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Each of these realities is a relationship that we are with God and God with us, even if we don\u2019t know it, hardly ever avert to it, etc. \u00a0A Trinity rich in meaning, intimate in relationship.<\/p>\n<p>But the larger question for us is who are the \u201cwe?\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Take a look at our one verse again, for a clue to the answer.\u00a0 Jesus intended that commission to go out to all the nations. He intends the \u201cwe\u201d to be every one. His words make known what is present, his word gives us a meaning that we did not have before he spoke them, it is a meaning that you are invited to \u2026 Back to the Spirit &#8211; holy, Holy, before, during, and after &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit of God is alive in every single human person who every existed, who exists right now, who ever will exist.\u00a0 But knowing that simple fact, if taken seriously, changes everything.\u00a0 For example, we often say to account for human short comings, well we\u2019re only human.\u00a0 But that is simply wrong.\u00a0 We\u2019re human, for sure; but we are more \u2013 none of the four points above are only human, life is not only human, no human being is only human.\u00a0 And it was only over time that we came to know, to say in words, that we are God\u2019s people, the Father\u2019s adopted sons and daughters, Christ\u2019s body, the Spirit\u2019s Temple. \u00a0You are blest to know who everyone is called to be and you are!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lectionary edition of Mt. 28:19 reads: \u201cGo, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit \u2026\u201d Whereas the biblical edition of the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/?p=474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,18,6],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture","tag-historical-method","tag-religion-and-culture","tag-scripture-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}