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CHURCH AND SCHOOL

CHURCH AND SCHOOL. COMPANEROS IN GROWING PEOPLE OF GOD. Confessional Center. Yahweh is King Jesus is Lord. Biblical Narrative. Creation Rebellion Redeemed Covenant People  Exile Jesus Church Consummation. Vantage Point #1. God Creator Sovereign Creation Good Ordered

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CHURCH AND SCHOOL

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  1. CHURCHAND SCHOOL COMPANEROS IN GROWING PEOPLE OF GOD

  2. Confessional Center • Yahweh is King • Jesus is Lord

  3. Biblical Narrative • Creation • Rebellion • Redeemed Covenant People Exile • Jesus • Church • Consummation

  4. Vantage Point #1 • God • Creator • Sovereign • Creation • Good • Ordered • “Teeming” • Humanity • Genesis 1: image of God – rule the earth • Genesis 2: formed by God – guard and serve earth

  5. Biblical Wisdom • Creation connection (Proverbs 8, Job 28) • “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” • Creation order : Worship order • Ethical order : Choose life, not death • Catechism • Story • Family life • Covenant challenge

  6. Vantage Point #2 • Human rebellion distorts created shalom. • Violence • Enslaving systems • Whose mishpat? • Pharaoh • Saul (1 Samuel 8:10-18) • David • Ahab

  7. School of the prophets • Nathan • Elijah • Elisha • Writing prophets

  8. Solomon:Israel’s Ironic Icon • Power via wisdom • sustained critical reflection on lived experience in order to discern the hidden shape of reality in daily life • family/tribal wisdom  wisdom of the school and court to manage and master others • international reputation and competition; “success”

  9. Wealth via wisdom • international commercial trade in arms and luxury items • taxation • cheap labor • royal military bureaucracy

  10. Wisdom vis a visTorah obedience • the uncompromising “if” of covenant • 1 Kings 3:14 • 1 Kings 6:12-13 • 1 Kings 9:6 • indictment and sentence • royal compromise violates Torah • land loss • choosing death

  11. Vantage Point #3 • New community of the new covenant • redemption from the alienation of sin by the cross • new covenant community • “in Christ” • Jesus brings abundant life

  12. NT re-uses OT metaphors • community of aliens and exiles • chosen race • royal priesthood • holy nation • God’s own people

  13. Jesus – Author and Pioneer • Christ gives new life to those who were dead in disobedience, strangers, without hope, without God • Christ reconciles enemies into a new community which he equips to make known the mystery of God • Christ teaches his followers to make disciples, teaching everything that he commanded • Christ offers abundant life, peace, a new Jerusalem of light and life

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