Dr. Goheen’s first session explores the gospel as the announcement that all of creation and human life is being renewed, and the church’s mission to make known that gospel in life, word, and deed. Understanding the comprehensive scope of the gospel is mission critical as we pray, work, study, and live in this world as God’s kingdom witnesses.
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Dr. Michael Goheen - Is Our Gospel Too Small?: Truncated Gospel, Truncated Mission
This second session explores how our capitulation to the Western worldview has limited the gospel and narrowed our mission. In order to fully embrace the big gospel of Jesus, we need to understand how we shrunk God’s big story in the first place.
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Michael Goheen - Gospel, Story, Worldview, and the Church’s Mission
Starting with the Gospel of the Kingdom
1. The good news 2. Five highlights: Power of God unto salvation Restorative nature Comprehensive scope Climax of a story Church essentialParticipating in the Biblical Story
1. Human life is shaped by some story 2. Bible tells one story 3. Often Christians do not see Bible as one story 4. Claims to be normative and comprehensive 5. Missionary encounter with cultural storyComprehensive Scope of the Gospel Narrowed
1. Comprehensive scope of gospel and church’s mission in early church Confession: ‘Jesus is Lord’ Self-designation: ‘Ecclesia’ 2. Gospel privatised at the EnlightenmentRise of the Term Worldview
1. Historical rise of term 2. Means to recover the comprehensive scope of the gospel 3. Tool to mediate gospel to church’s mission in publichttp://www.churchbootcamp.com/sermon/gospel-story-worldview-and-the-churchs-mission/
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Toni Morrison | Home
Acclaimed for her powerful and poetic depictions of African American culture, Toni Morrison received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Princeton University, and author of the esteemed novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and A Mercy. Her new book tells the story of a self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who returns to a racist United States after enduring front-line trauma and emotional damage.
In conversation with author and editor, Veronica Chambers
Introduced by Sonia Sanchez
(recorded 5/18/2012)