Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
The dog days of Santa Barbara: |inline Read more
We are at the second to last chapter in Jon Wilson’s Why Church Matters and I want to ask a question that for many of my readers is (perhaps) ludicrous to ask. If not ludicrous, perhaps the question is just quaint. |inline Read more
The crux of the fierce criticism of the New Perspective on Paul is what I will call an Augustinian anthropology. Here me out because I think this is behind nearly every criticism I’m hearing of the NPP, and many times I’m not hearing that it is this that is actually prompting the criticism. |inline Read more
We’ll be in San Diego this year for the National Pastor’s Convention for two workshops, one on praying with the church and the other on “the third way” — a theology for postmodern evangelicals. Read more
Life for missional Jesus was not easy; especially not in his own home of Nazareth. |inline Read more
With these three summaries now on the table, and with some fine clarifications by others, I wish now to state what we have to do when we start talking about the “New Perspective” because I’m hearing lots of things that I think are gross distortions. Simon Gathercole’s piece in CT is a nice summary; I have only little quibbles with it but I have more than quibbles with what I sometimes hear. |inline Read more
Today I will be attending Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit. During the afternoon I have been asked to blog about the session of Floyd Flake (he looks like Dr. J so I know I’ll like him) and it will appear on Willow’s site and on this site. I’ll be checking in on this blog throughout the day. Read more
Missional Jesus works with all kinds of people — not just his followers and not just his family. In this passage today we find missional Jesus revealing what “missional” means. |inline Read more
The first phase of the New Perspective on Paul was E.P. Sanders; the second was the work of James Dunn; the third phase is the work of N.T. Wright, whose earliest book was a study of Paul and who then began to unleash his massive set of volumes on Christian Origins and the Question of God. |inline Read more
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