May 25th, 2025 - The Wind Blows

Scripture Passage:  John 3:1-8

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Kids and Communion
John 3:1-8
"The Wind Blows"

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Encouraging parents to guide their children in participating in communion.

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Who may participate?
Members
Those who have professed their faith
(both raise questions)

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Synod 2006 - Minority Report
2007 - Process of Faith Formation

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Mountainview - parents guide
Other churches - child appropriate profession

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Fear or Feeding?
Knowledge or Faith?

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Nicodemus knows
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.

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He believes there is more
  2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

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Jesus shows there is way more
  3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

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A good question
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

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External and internal
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.

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The source shapes the life
6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit.

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Where would he have learned this?
 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[c] must be born again.’

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Divine power, divine mystery
 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.

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God has moved: John 3:16
We access by faith
Faith is a mysterious move of God

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Faith given, then formed
Faith in search of understanding
Faith fed in the context of the faithful

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Find faith
Feed faith
Inform faith