Saint Mary's Nativity welcomes seekers home to Christ
What the video says
The speaker explains their love for God through personal experience. They describe feeling weightless when experiencing God's love and finding purpose in being called chosen. God has transformed them into a new creation, and they declare God will always be their favorite form of love.
Key moments
- The speaker asks why they love God
- When God loves them, they feel like they are floating
- When God calls them chosen, they feel like somebody with purpose
- God changed them into a new creation
- God will always be their favorite form of love
Saint Mary's Nativity Antiochian Orthodox Church in Mays Hill, Sydney, posted a message addressing two groups: those who have entered the Church through Baptism and Chrismation, and those still searching. The post quotes St. Augustine: "You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You." It describes the heart as made for God and invites people to come and see.
An accompanying video features a speaker describing personal experience of God's love. The speaker says that when God loves them, they feel weightless. When God calls them chosen, they feel purpose. God has changed them into a new creation. The speaker declares that God will always be their favorite form of love.
Main points
- Saint Mary's Nativity Antiochian Orthodox Church in Sydney addresses those who have found their way home and those still searching
- The post quotes St. Augustine on the heart's restlessness until it rests in God
- Baptism and Chrismation are named as the means of being born anew in Christ
- A speaker in the video describes feeling weightless when experiencing God's love
- The speaker says being called chosen gives purpose, God made them a new creation, and God is their favorite form of love