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Andrei Rublev, Gregory the Theologian (1408) ““What is not assumed, is not redeemed”“ I came across this great quote by Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390 AD) today while re-listening to some old VLI lectures. Gregory made the statement during the great fourth century debate on the nature of Jesus Christ in an effort to [...]
This questioning lead to a two part blog series in which I talked about Augustine and Pelagius view on original sin (Augustine – genetic; Pelagius – social). The end result of the series was to grudgingly follow Wayne Grudem’s conclusions, which was the best view I had heard at the time. Fast forward a few years. Yesterday I was reading about the Creator God in the book The Orthodox Way by Bishop Ware. This is an Eastern Orthodox theology book which has really watered my soul over the last few weeks. In this selection, Bishop Ware talks a bit about original sin and the Eastern Orthodox view on it. As I read it, my heart jumped because it was very close to the view that I had to hold over the last four years. This, however, was the first time I have ever seen it written down – hence the excitement of my heart. Continue reading Original Sin: Revisted
Well, I guess it all goes back to the summer 2001. I spend that summer with my new bride volunteering with Latin America Missions in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We lived with a local family for two and a half months while helping a local Christian organization love on their neighbors through microfinance loans, computer training and youth Bible studies. It was a fantastic summer that fueled my love for international missions. One day that summer I remember sitting in our bedroom at our host home talking to the Lord when He told me something close to the following (I don’t recall the exact words):
At that moment it hit me – if I wanted to change the world for God; if I wanted to help people – I would have to have some kind of skills, training or knowledge to give away. While I was going to college for a business degree, there was something about that day that sparked an interest in studying theology. I don’t really know why that thought came across my mind that evening as “theology” was a cuss word to me at that time. Shoot, growing up we always joked that seminaries where cemeteries! Continue reading Why I Study… My test of Thursday went off good – I was surprised as I didn’t feel that ready leading up to it. But I was able to review before hand and God brought back the information… we will see how well I actually did when the test scores come back (in about 3 months) [...] VLI – we are still going to Vineyard Leadership Institute. Yelp – in the mist of everything else we are still attending class. Yelp – we are crazy. But then you knew that already. The good news is that we only have nine more weeks. That’s right – we are on the down hill [...] Here are some highlights of our VLI class today: a) Salvation begins our journey towards spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational wholeness. Humans are a whole – healing and salvation is for the whole person, not just for spiritual part or our physcial part. God heals every part…. We are saved/healed, we are being [...] Deuteronomy 12:2-3 says: “Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you're driving out worship their gods—wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in groves of green trees. Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic pillars. Burn their sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. [...] As I continue my journey through Numbers, I realized how happy those under twenty year old guys must be: Setting: The twelve spies return and the people decided NOT to enter the promise land. God gets mad…. “Hey Bob, did you hear the news? Moses just said all men registered in [...] In reading Numbers yesterday and today, I was struck on how all tribal censes came out so…so smooth. The tribe of Judah numbered 74,600 The tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400 The tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400 On and on it goes… I think something like the following happened [...] |
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