Jesus Creed
Here is a letter from the Purple Pastor at Eastpoint Community Church. He’s in Africa for two weeks working with orphans of AIDS: Dear Scot, Tonight I’ll be flying from Philadelphia to London, and then on to Lusaka, Zambia. |inline Read more
Here is a letter from the Purple Pastor at Eastpoint Community Church. He’s in Africa for two weeks working with orphans of AIDS: Dear Scot, Tonight I’ll be flying from Philadelphia to London, and then on to Lusaka, Zambia. |inline Read more
Controversy of the week: a high school teacher speaks out about Bush. I believe in free speech, but I believe in intelligent conversation. And what many think is free speech is simply opinionating an ideology. |inline Read more
Coldspring Community Church, led by David Cooke, is hosting us this week at a lovely home. I awoke this morning to find a wild turkey in the yard, but he quickly figured I was watching and secreted away. Then we headed for Truckee by the north end of Lake Tahoe, but the weather folks warned us that we needed chains on the tires to get there — and we weren’t game for that. |inline Read more
I will use this post to explain the big picture of Peter’s emerging strategy, for in 1 Peter 2:11-12 Peter gives his strategy. It is here that Peter devises a strategy for how the communites of faith in Asia Minor can make an impact on their society. These two verses are then applied in 2:13–3:12. I will give the big picture today and then develop each next week. |inline Read more
Here’s another one on atonement: “The logic of punishment was a logic of equivalence (the wages of sin is death); the logic of grace is a logic of surplus and excess.” |inline Read more
Kris and I are in Placerville, California, up the road from Sacramento, at a fine little gelato shop that has a Wi-fi. I just got to this response by Allan so I’m posting it a bit late today. Allan Bevere and I have been posting our way through Tom Wright’s new book, Paul in Fresh Perspective and this post brings us to the end. |inline Read more
We need to return to the text of yesterday: 1 Peter 2:9-10. This is pure emerging church theology. Peter here does three things: (1) he universalizes election, (2) he privileges the marginalized, and (3) he declares a missional strategy. |inline Read more
Atonement is “the radical newness of the practice of the gospel, as over against the tolerated violence of all other human practices.” Jesus’ death is efficacious, not because it satisfies God… but “because it is the inauguration of the ‘political’ practice of forgiveness … The practice is itself continuing atonement.” Answer: Do you think atonement is something done for us or both done for us and something we practice? Read more
Bart Ehrman, in his new book, Misquoting Jesus, tells his story: how he found an evangelical faith, attended Moody, Wheaton and then Princeton — during which time he came to the conclusion that the Bible is simply a human book. Here’s his story. What did you think of his book? |inline Read more
It is politically incorrect to say that the Church replaces Israel in the plan of God or to say that a supersessionism is at work in early Christian theology. Traditionally Christians have claimed both terms at some level. There are three basic views, so far as I can see — and there are all kinds of little nunaces among theologians. What is your view? |inline Read more
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