Posted in Emergent Conversation, Ministry on Jan 15th, 2008
“Bam!” is not just a culinary remark. It is also a theological and missional one. I came across this sentence from Leslie Newbigin from his book Truth to Tell…
“The missionary action of the Church is the exegesis of the Gospel.”
“Bam! Bam!”
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus, Ministry on Dec 18th, 2007
I’ll offer a brief idea worth pondering from reading Burridge’s Imitating Jesus. It is from his section on Luke-Acts.
All four Gospels report the incident in the Garden when the Temple police come to arrest Jesus and Peter draws a sword and cuts off the ear of the high priest’s slave. Yet only Luke reports that [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Theology on Dec 6th, 2007
In a recent post “Does Jesus the Man Save?” I asked about the content of faith. Does the “content” of saving faith expand through time?
Peter did not make it very plain that Jesus of Nazareth was God-in-the-flesh, describing Jesus of Nazareth only as a Spirit-empowered man. Peter did not emphasize Jesus’ deity. Did the Jews [...]
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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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