Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

So let's get this, let's do a little bit more theosis language, but let's think in terms of love for one another as being an expression of the nature of Christ that will be a principal witness, according to John 17, Matthew mentioned. According to John 17, it'll be a principal witness of the reality of Jesus being the Messiah, principal witness, the way that we relate to one another. And we'll read some of John 17 in just a little while. But I'm going to read you a little bit more of this Theosis, The True Purpose of Human Life by Archimandrate George of the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregorius and Mount Athos.

You're welcome for that long title.

I'm just reading it as it is right here.

Okay.

Ready?

Whew.

The guidance of our Orthodox Church offers with the Holy Services, patristic theology.

Patristic is from the Greek word potter, meaning father.

And so the theology of our fathers, the early fathers, monasticism, and then this word,

the anthropocentric guidance.

The anthropocentric guidance.

Its center is the God man, Christ Christ and it leads to theosis.

So I like the word Christification and I specifically like it if we're talking about the anthropocentric guidance.

Its center is the God man Christ and it leads to Christification.

So we're moving self from the center, and even in religion,

self is put in the center, even if it's the transformation of self, the consequence is the

transformation of self. The aim is obsession with the person of Jesus. In the words of Morgan Wallen,

if I'm the problem, you might be the reason. So if I'm, so if sin is the problem. So we have to

get this right because I think sometimes we go, I have a problem and we don't know the reason.

Thank you, Morgan Wallen, for why we

have the problem. I probably need to be thanking Ernest or Hardy, who probably wrote it, but y'all

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