The Spirit of Ministry: Gifts, Fruit, Vitality
Dr. Richard Topping will be speaking via ZOOM to the clergy and other interested persons in the Presbytery of Calgary-Macleod at 6:00 in the evening on March 10. Richard holds the St. Andrew’s Hall Chair in Studies in the Reformed Tradition and has been the Principal of Vancouver School of Theology since 2013. He teaches in the areas of Introduction to Theology, Reformation History, Christian Spirituality and Reformed Theology of the 19th and Twentieth Century.
The reformed tradition has untapped riches in its theology of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is the secret energy of God by which we know the benefits of Christ, are equipped to serve, are inflamed by God in the reading of scripture and become transformed people along the way. The image of God in us is renewed by the Spirit our inner teacher. And you can count on the fact that the Spirit is always already at work in the world as the Lord and giver of life. The Spirit of Ministry is the sources of our gifts, renewed character and prompt eagerness to serve God in the world. We are not by any means in ministry alone.
