Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 24th, 2007
I grew up in a community that sang with rousing enthusiasm, “This world is not my home/ I’m just apassin’ through./ My treasures are laid up/ somewhere beyond the blue… .”
Everything was O.K. with that rousing enthusiasm except everyone seemed more like settlers, not travelers. The last thing we were was pilgrims. We talked pilgrim [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 20th, 2007
This is important. Jesus of Nazareth was a specific human being born on a specific date in human history and lived in Palestine during a particular time in Israel’s history, the period of second Temple Judaism. He was Jewish in ethnicity and culture, in language and custom. He probably spoke Aramaic and Hebrew and was [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 17th, 2007
Kiss the Son. –Psalm 2.
The emergent conversation believes that Truth is a Person. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Without an intimate relationship with the Person Who is Truth, you can make all the “truth claims” you want, but they will be hollow claims, pieces of cold fish laying on the ice. Just [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 11th, 2007
Which came first–the chicken or the egg?
Which came first–the Person or the Book?
The second question is the emergent question regarding the Bible.
I must condense a lot of history and convergence, but here goes. In the era of the Protestant Reformation three realities converged to elevate the Book (the Bible) above the Person (the Christ). The [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 8th, 2007
A.W. Tozer wrote, “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, in describing the wonder, awe, greatness and mystery of God, The statement “God is” is an understatement.”
No one doubts that in Jesus’ 2nd Temple Judaism culture the term “God” was highly revered. [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Nov 4th, 2007
We USAmericans have formed an extremely sanitized picture of Jesus’ world. We’ve been duped by historically inaccurate Christmas card images of his manger birth (cows?). We imagine Jesus leisurely strolling through meadows with The Twelve and happily hugging children seated on his lap. Jesus lived in “the holy land” after all. We carry mental images [...]
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