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What on earth have you been banging on about in your sermons? Three groups of Questions:. Christ the King. Will the boiler be updated?. What do you in private?. Follow the teaching of Jesus Follow the teaching of the New Testament Follow the example of Jesus Follow Jesus
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What on earth have you been banging on about in your sermons? Three groups of Questions: Christ the King
Follow the teaching of Jesus Follow the teaching of the New Testament Follow the example of Jesus Follow Jesus None of the above. As a core commitment Christians should:
Task: To lead ‘an open, ongoing search for understanding of what it means to be individuals, and a community, of faith today.’ Parish Profile:
Who or What is the Word of God? What is a sermon?
Action Reflection Worship Study
Isn’t it more important to do things than talk about things? Isn’t theology a load of ..........? Mark, Luke, Matthew, John, James,Paul, Peter,,.................. Ideas vs ACTION
Incarnation (Christ being with us in creation) Anglicanism from 1750) Response to the Enlightenment Crucifixion (Puritanism, Pietism and European evangelicalism from Reformation onwards. Also Roman Catholicism in different periods.)Response to Medieval Platonism Resurrection (From 1890-1920: PT. Forsyth and Charles Finney etc.) Response to Modernism Different Theological influences (you didn’t know you had)
Ascension Theology: Response to Post modernism Challenges: How do know definitely anything is ‘true’? What is the teaching of New Testament? Which example of Jesus? Biblical Response: All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely... (promise delivered through in Ascension) We will one day know as we are now known 1 Cor. 13: 12(St. Paul , Jacques Derrida & Mikhail Bahktin)
Worship What is worship? What should we be ‘doing’?
Worship is not something we ‘do’ (Ego). The Ascended Christ worships the Father. We are invited to be caught up in the Sons communication with the Father (Perichoresis) The ascension, through worship, is preparing us to enter God’s inner life.
The Future Magnus Carlsen: World Chess Champion
Neo-Dialectical Materialism balanced by Neo-Eternalism
Humanity is good even if fallen But will be even better because of Ascension BALANCE What did that mean?