- To read or preach the Bible missionally, you need to read the Bible Christotelic
- You can't read the Bible to the church
- How to read the Bible Christotelic
- Psalm 89
- Lack of faithfulness
- God is making a covenant with David, "I will take your son as my son, you will never lack for someone to sit on your throne"
- David's line will continue forever
- Psalm 44
- Vs. 17 - we have departed from your covenant, the people feel God has turned his back
- Is it possible to have something that goes against God's character in an inerrant Bible, and why would God put it there?
- The reason this Psalm is in the Bible is that the Bible has a coherence, a coherence filled with tensions and seeming contradictions
- God wants these charges to be there so that he can prove them wrong
- The reading of these Psalms demand...
- We be rigorously honest with the communication of the human author, seek his/her meaning
- We inquire after the ultimate intention of the divine author
- We keep in mind throughout that the divine author's intention is ultimately revealed in Christ
- Does the Bible have coherence?
- Yes
- If you flatten it out using systematic theological categories
- How is the Bible missional?
- The story of Abraham (Genesis 12)
- Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 26:4 - 5)
- Psalm 67:1
- Isaiah 56:3 - 8
- Numbers 6:22 - 7:1
- Acts 15:5 - 18
- The mission of God is not to redeem mankind, the mission of God is to extend his community
- Scot McKnight's lecture "The Gospel"
- If you talk about Jesus long enough, you get people interested in Jesus"
- Most people who talk about the gospel are talking about Romans 3
- We construct the gospel because of one passage (Genesis 3)
- Is that being honest to the gospel in the Bible
- 7 mistakes we make in presenting the gospel
- Too often we begin with Genesis 3 instead of Gensis 1
- The bible does not begin with humans being fallen, the bible begins with humans as the image of God
- Humans are made to be in relationship with God, self, each other, the world
- The message of the Bible is that we are given the distinction of representing God
- We skip from Genesis 3 to Romans 3
- Most Christians can present the gospel without the Bible, many Christians don't need the bible
- We want to skip to Jesus on the cross
- We define sin to narrowly
- Sin is understood by many to be no more than rebellion against God
- If humans are made in the image of God to relate to God, self, others and the world; then sin moves in all 4 of those directions
- If sin is small, we don't have the biblical image of redemption
- We make a mistake by trying to resolve all of the problems on Good Friday
- Paul preached Christ crucified, but Jesus didn't stay on the cross
- "Jesus didn't come to die for your sins, he came to live and to die and to be raised"
- 4 moments that God used to fix the problem of humans (life of Jesus, death of Jesus, resurrection of Jesus, pentecost)
- We preach the gospel to convince people of their guilt
- Our culture is not into guilt, shame is more significant
- Jesus started by trying to convince people they were guilty before God, instead, he casted a vision of the kingdom of God and invited people to join it
- He paints a picture of the kingdom and in the midst of the kingdom, we see where we fall short
- To frequently we root the gospel in a God who is angry and wrathful instead of a Trinitarian, perichoretic dance
- Wrath is a reaction to sin
- The gospel doesn't originate in the wrath of God but the grace of God
- We tend to resolve the problem in one direction
- 4 directions of the gospel (God, self, others, the world)
- When God restores us to himself, we are not only restored with God
- Our problems are not fixed if we just fix our problem with God
- The most important words in the Bible, other than God, are Israel and the church
- It is all about God working to form this community in the world
- How can you preach the grace of God and have relationships that are estranged
- The gospel is bigger than getting right with God
- The gospel is the work of the Trinitarian God to restore cracked humans in the context of a community (of faith), through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and the gift of the Spirit, to union with God, communion with others for the good of the world
- Being missional means we are moved to read the scripture that end is Christ