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Basic Framework Principles. We should teach to our hearers as fellow creatures made in God’s image, possessors of conscience, and, if regenerate, recipients of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
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Basic Framework Principles • We should teach to our hearers as fellow creatures made in God’s image, possessors of conscience, and, if regenerate, recipients of the indwelling Holy Spirit. • We should teach antithetically, contrasting the truth with error as needed and demonstrating clearly the implications of each. • We should teach in a manner that integrates general and special revelation, events and doctrines, each part mutually reinforcing the other so as to surround unbelief and prevent it from neutralizing our teaching.
CONVERGENCE OF DISCIPLINES Exegesis Framework Theology Apologetics
THE HOLY SPIRIT’S ENVELOPMENTAL STRATEGY THROUGH CHURCH GROWTH IN THE WORD OF GOD NT CANON CONTINUITY OF BEING TRINITY & PERSON OF CHRIST IDEALISTIC LOGIC ARBITRARY JUSTICE CROSS: SATISFACTION OF DIVINE JUSTICE HUMAN MERIT JUSTIFICATION: SOLA FIDE DIVINE STATE-SAVIOR ECCLESIOLOGY & ESCHATOLOGY “NATURAL” HISTORY UNIVERSAL HISTORY: CREATIONISM
CONVERGENCE OF DISCIPLINES Exegesis Framework Theology Apologetics
THE BURIED FOUNDATION CREATION God Man Nature FALL Evil & Suffering Judgment / Salvation FLOOD God COVENANT Man Nature
THE DISRUPTIVE KINGDOM CALL OF ABRAHAM Election Justification Faith Judgment / Salvation EXODUS (Blood Atonement) MT. SINAI Revelation Inspiration Canonicity CONQUEST & SETTLEMENT Sanctification RISE & REIGN OF DAVID Sanctification (Confession & Restoration)
THE KING’S DISCIPLINE GOLDEN ERA OF SOLOMON Sanctification (Growth & Wisdom) KINGDOM DIVIDED Sanctification (Chastening & Repentence) Sanctification (Chastening,Repentence, & Final Cleansing) KINGDOMS IN DECLINE EXILE Sanctification (Separation) Revelation / Inspiration (Apocalyptic Literature) Canonicity (Preservation of the Text) Prayer RESTORATION
THE KING AS CREATOR & CREATURE BIRTH Hypostatic Union Kenosis Impeccability Infallibility LIFE Substitutionary Blood Atonement DEATH Glorification RESURRECTION
THE KING’S QUALIFYING CAMPAIGN Judgment / Salvation (Last days begin) ASCENSION & SESSION Person & Work of the Holy Spirit; Sanctification PENTECOST Dispensations (Israelology & Ecclesiology) EMERGENCE OF THE CHURCH Historical Theology (doctrinal clarification) MATURING OF THE CHURCH DESTINY OF THE CHURCH Eschatology (Rapture, Bema, Return)