Spirit & Word - Week 7: Friday

John 6:63

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."

Commentary

St. Augustine
It is the Spirit that gives life to us the members...This is said so that we may love union and fear schism. Nothing a Christian should fear like his separation from Christ’s body and, in consequence of not being a member of Christ, he does not live by Christ’s Spirit. The apostle says, “if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” (Rom 8:9)

Questions

• Are we scared to be separated from Christ or the church?

• When we sin, do we feel a separation between us and God? Do we feel ourselves pulling away? If yes, how does that make us feel and how do we react?