Holy Spirit & Worship
The Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, prayer, and gathered worship.
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Explore Paul’s teaching on tongues in 1 Corinthians 14: intelligibility, interpretation, orderly worship, and the building up of the congregation.
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Compare 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2 on women speaking and teaching, attending to local circumstances, literary context, and disputed interpretations.
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Explore biblical passages about unanswered prayer, righteousness, and covenant faithfulness, asking what Scripture means when God hears his people.
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Reflect on the church’s responsibility for judgment, discipline, and reconciliation, and what happens when authority is separated from faithful obedience.
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What do binding and loosing mean in Matthew? Explore their setting in community responsibility, judgment, and the exercise of delegated authority.
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Read prayer within the biblical language of covenant, judgment, and participation in God’s purposes, rather than only as private religious expression.
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Explore the Holy Spirit through biblical language of God’s presence, power, and covenant life, with attention to the interpretive categories readers bring.
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Explore how different assumptions about the Holy Spirit can derail theological discussion, and why defining terms helps clarify the actual disagreement.
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Explore the Eucharist as shared participation and community practice, drawing on early Christian witnesses to the Lord’s Supper and life around the table.
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Explore Hebrew vocabulary associated with prayer, including petition, lament, and praise, and why context matters more than a single English gloss.
