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witness and withness
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witness to what?
Jesus …
which Jesus?
the gospel …
which gospel?
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framing Jesus and the gospel
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sdrawkcab gnidaerRick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus
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Hell
Salvation
Fallen History/
Fallen world
Fall
HeavenEden
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Hades
Atonement, purification
Aristotelian
Real
Fall
Into Aristotelian
Real
Platonic IdealPlatonic Ideal
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Torture
Death
civilization
development
assimilationbarbarianism
rebellion
Pax RomanaPax Romana
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Torture
Death
civilization
development
assimilationbarbarianism
rebellion
Pax RomanaPax Romana
This is a “totalizing metanarrative” - an us-them story that legitimates domination, supremacy, racism, enslavement,
exploitation, colonization, genocide.
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Eternal Conscious Torment in Hell
salvation/atonement/redemption
conquistadores, colonization
civilization, culture warbarbarianism
heathenism
paganism
secularism
relativism
rebellion
ChristendomChristendom
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in this frame - who is Jesus?
in this frame - what is the gospel?
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is there an alternative frame?
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sdrawkcab gnidaerRick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus
reading forwardsAdam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Moses, David, Isaiah, Elizabeth, John the Baptist, Mary, Jesus ----- >
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy
Not a “totalizing metanarrative”-
But a “multi-narrative” that creates a story-space (not a story-line) in which a million good stories can emerge.
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
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Destroying the world?Abandoning the world?Healing the world?
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
CRISIS
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
CRISIS
CALLING
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
CRISIS
CALLING
CAPTIVITY
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
CRISIS
CALLING
CAPTIVITYCONQUEST
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes
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CRISIS
CALLING
CAPTIVITYCONQUEST
CONVERSATION
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Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Genes i s
CREATION
CRISIS
CALLING
CAPTIVITYCONQUEST
CONVERSATION
CHRIST
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self
church
world
God’s will …
God’s beauty, goodness, truth,
justice, peace, joy.
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what is witness in this framing of Jesus and the
gospel?
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Salvation ...
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Salvation ... from God?
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Salvation ... from God?
Salvation ... from our sins?(our cycles of violence - as victims or
perpetrators)
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Jesus died “for our sins.”
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Jesus died “for our sins.”As a payment?
As a substitute?
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Jesus died “for our sins.”As a payment?
As a substitute?
I took an aspirin “for my headache.”I exercise “for my weight.”
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Method = “Way”
Religion as System of Beliefs
or Way of Life?
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What is the Christian
way of life?
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What is the one greatest commandment?
“You shall have the correct beliefs system!”
(not)
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What is the one greatest commandment?
Love …
and the second is equally important …
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Jesus
Paul
John
James
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Love 101:
neighbor
stranger
outsider/outcast
enemy
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Love 201:
self
not selfish
not self-hating
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Love 301:
the earth
all creation
for neighbors & self
for God’s sake
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Love 401:
God
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People who are learning to love their neighbors, themselves and the earth will not find it hard to learn to love God, because God will not be for them a doctrine or theory separate from or inconsistent with what they already love. Rather, in their experience of love for neighbor, self and creation, they will already have experienced God, because, as Richard Rohr says, ‘God is an event of communion.’11 They will already have come, as the Quakers say, to love and reverence ‘that of God in every one’. So in Love 401, people learn to recognize and love the familiar light they see radiant in everything they already love. They learn to inhabit God as the loving reality in which they ‘live and move and have their being’, the all-encompassing ‘event of communion’ in which they have experienced countless events of communion. Each experience of love itself, they will realize, has been an experience of God, for, as John said in the New Testament, ‘Love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God … for God is love’ (1 John 4:7–8).
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Yes, loving a distant and theoretical God who must be approached through complex belief systems can indeed be tough – even exhausting, mentally and emotionally. But loving the God who is experienced in love for neighbor, self and creation comes as naturally as breathing. A character from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov captures it perfectly:
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Love all of God’s creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love animals, love plants, love each thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin tirelessly to perceive more and more of it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an entire, universal love.
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creation people
self
God
know
knowlove
love
LOVE CYCLE
know
love
knowlove
Love can only begin from knowing God, as love comes from God. As we live out the mandate of loving others, self and creation, we must continue to know, in order to love better. This is a cycle, not a linear process. As we go through the outer circle, we are learning to love God. It is ONLY through loving people, self and creation that we are able to love God in a real way. As you continueto go through the love cycle, the breadth and depth of your capacity to love increases.
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self (soul)
church
world
HEAVEN
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self
church
world
HEAVEN (God’s will)
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why?for whom?
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