In my last post we saw that the coming of the Kingdom of God is the central event of redemptive history. Kevin DeYoung, in an article entitled “Thinking...
In our last post I asked the question, “If someone asked you what is the Bible about in one short sentence, how would you respond?” My friend Miles...
We have looked at the first two (the Four Chapter Gospel and the Cultural Mandate) of five foundational ideas about work taught in the Scripture. Understanding these five...
Is the Cultural Mandate still in place today? Why don’t we read about it in the New Testament? Was the Cultural Mandate negated by the Fall? These are...
Let’s summarize our discussion of the Four-Chapter Gospel from these past several days: For 1800 years the metanarrative of the Bible was taught in four chapters, creation, fall,...
Drawing our missional role from the metanarrative of Scripture as we discussed in our last post stands in stark contrast to the way most evangelical Christians use and...
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers the main characters Jake and Elwood said they were on a mission from God. They weren’t, but we are… In our...
As we said yesterday, today’s evangelical church has edited the Four-Chapter Gospel (creation, fall, redemption and restoration) down to two chapters (fall and redemption). The opening chapters of...
If you are like me and have been in an evangelical church, you probably understand the gospel as: God made you and wants to have a relationship with...
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