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Romans, sin, and gospel
We have swapped the truth for a lie.
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Too much of a “bottom line” mentality
In our western rush to get to the conclusion, we ask, “Why did Jesus have to die? Why did it have to be the crucifixion?” Then, we want a Twitter-length answer.
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Our narrow view of atonement and the gospels
Wright notes that the four gospels have very little to say about the topic of atonement. No one is talking about “going to heaven.”
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Losing sight of the power of the cross
We have paganized our view of how salvation happens.
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Sin
Israel had been called for a purpose. That purpose wasn’t about keeping a list of rules. It wasn’t about “going to heaven.”
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Are we asking the wrong questions?
Our view of God in Western Christianity is, quite frankly, too small.
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Praying the Lord’s Prayer… in reverse
NT Wright’s book Simply Good News challenges the reader to look at how we pray. We often pray the Lord’s Prayer in reverse. I will be looking at Wright’s analysis on “praying as good news people” in my message on Sunday. His contention is the Lord’s Prayer helps us with priorities in prayer. They are sections that can be slapped together…
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Imagine: A New Day
In his book, Simply Good News, NT Wright defines Christian spirituality: Christian spirituality — an awareness of the loving and guiding presence of God, sorrow for sin and gratitude for forgiveness, the possibility and challenge of prayer, a love for God and for our neighbors, the desire for holiness and the hard moral work it requires, the gradual or sudden emergence of…
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Politics and the Kingdom of God
It is good timing that has me reading NT Wright’s Surprised by Scripture the same week the news is exploding from a new Indiana law regarding discrimination and religious rights. Wright’s chapter, “Our Politics Are Too Small” is powerful. Some thoughts: “…martyrdom (which is what happens when the church bears witness to God’s call to the rulers and the rulers…
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Gospel definitions
I am in the first pages of Michael Bird’s Evangelical Theology. He opens early on with definitions of gospel because all theology must be rooted in gospel. He uses N.T. Wright: The gospel is the royal announcement that the crucified and risen Jesus, who died for our sins and rose again according to the Scriptures, has been enthroned as the…
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