We belong to the community of the King.  We belong because God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves (Colossians 1:13). Within this community, we speak to one another about God because we know him as the One who is present among us. However, as we speak to one another about God, we want to hear God himself.  

The Father wants to be known and makes himself known by speaking to us through Jesus, the Living Word, by his Spirit. In the beginning, the Living Word spoke everything into existence.  That same living word became flesh and lived among us as one of us. 

He came into history as God in person speaking to us as one of us. And now he calls us to be always attentive to himself as the Living Word who speaks to us personally through the Written Word that bears witness to him. Furthermore, he now lives in us enabling our free response. Apart from the Living Word, our thoughts about God will likely derive from what we think is good and beautiful in the world. This can never provide authentic engagement with God.

Only God can reveal God. And that is just what God does through Jesus in the Spirit. The Living Word is a person who speaks personally to us in living encounters.    As he does so, he opens to us the Father’s heart. In this way, we come to know this God who wants to be known.