All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters. 15 You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to lead you back again into fear, but you received a Spirit that shows you are adopted as his children. With this Spirit, we cry, “ Abba, Father. ” 16 The same Spirit agrees with our spirit, that we are God’s children. 17 But if we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs and fellow heirs with Christ, if we really suffer with him so that we can also be glorified with him.
Justin LaRosa serves as the Director of Discipleship Ministries at Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida, where he develops a team of leaders to facilitate the process of organizing, training, empowering, and supporting laypersons in fulfilling the church’s mission of “Making God’s Love Real.”