{"id":16669,"date":"2011-05-13T05:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=16669"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:35:23","slug":"kings-cross-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/05\/13\/kings-cross-12\/","title":{"rendered":"King’s Cross 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For years I\u2019ve taught Jesus of Nazareth, and most years during the last week of the semester we examine the theology of each of the four Evangelists. The Gospel of Mark, in many ways, comes to a crucial pivot in Mark 8\u201310, and the core idea is this: the Messiah will be crucified in order to liberate God\u2019s people, and that means the cross is also the paradigm of discipleship. Tim Keller, in King\u2019s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, sketches the heart of this in his chapter called \u201cThe Ransom.\u201d A point I\u2019d like to make: to be consistent, to embrace cruciform discipleship requires embracing cruciform soteriology. The cross is the core.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three times in three chapters Jesus announces his death (8:31-32; 9:30-31; 10:32-34). Jesus came to die. \u201cThat sets him apart from the founder of ever other major religion. Their purpose was to live and be an example; Jesus\u2019 purpose was to die and be a sacrifice\u201d (140).<\/p>\n

Further: \u201cJesus came to be a substitutionary sacrifice\u201d \u2014 the words are \u201cto give his life a ransom for many\u201d and he sees behind \u201cfor\u201d the Greek word \u201canti\u201d which means \u201cinstead of.\u201d [I write about atonement theory in A Community Called Atonement: Living Theology<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.] And ransom is about a cosmic payment that will procure freedom.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where Keller\u2019s ideas make an important shift: his contention is that \u201call life-changing love is substitutionary sacrifice.\u201d Surprise? He sees it in care for the needy and in true parental love for children. I would definitely agree that it is sacrificial. He contends, and this he doesn\u2019t discuss, that forgiveness is not just \u201cI forgive\u201d but requires sacrificial love. So that the cross is the self-substitution of God \u2014 not just Son\u2019s love but Trinity love. Then this: God \u201cre<\/em>-created the world on the cross\u201d (144).<\/p>\n

Which leads to the cruciform life of discipleship:<\/p>\n

The disciples want a glory discipleship but Jesus shows that the essence of life is sacrificial and not ruling. And here he gets to the very core of Mark\u2019s theology: \u201cIf at the very heart of your worldview is a man dying for his enemies, then the way you\u2019re going to win influence in society is through service rather than power and control\u201d (149).<\/p>\n

The saving cross is the paradigm for the serving cross.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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