Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Give Me Your Eyes


I don't know about you but I get so busy at times I forget to really look at people. May the words of this song be the prayer of our hearts.

[HT: Gospel Paramount - check out what he wrote about this song]

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Basic Definition of the Gospel

Tim Chester and Steve Timmis (from their book Total Church)
God made humanity to know him and to rule over his good creation. But humanity rejected God, and ever since we have lived in rebellion against him and in conflict with each other. But God chose Abraham and his family to be the beginning of a new humanity. He rescued this people from slavery and made a covenant through which they could relate to him and display his glory to the world. When they persistently rejected God, he promised a remnant who would continue the promise of a people who know God. He promised a new covenant bringing forgiveness for sin and his Law written on their hearts. Ultimately Jesus was that faithful remnant. He died for his people to redeem God’s new humanity. And he rose as the first among many who would enjoy new life in a new creation. God is now gathering his people through the mission of the church and will present them, drawn from all nations, as the perfected bride of his Son.

Definition found on the blog post 2 Ways to Explain the Gospel on The Fool's Gold by Johnathan Bowers.

FYI
You can see an updated list of all the basic definitions I have posted so far here on Google Docs.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

The Heart of Christianity - Mark Driscoll

Basic Definition of the Gospel

John Ortberg
The availability of life, with God, in his favor and power, as a gift of grace we receive by repentance and trust, through the death and resurrection of Jesus—that's the gospel with power.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Calvary Chapel Bucureşti Channel on Vimeo

I created a channel on Vimeo for our Bible teaching that is videoed. You can check it out here at Calvary Chapel Bucureşti Channel

Gospel Quote - A Divisive Jesus

Don Carson
“Jesus, the Jesus who confronts the world, is quite frankly a divisive Jesus. This divisiveness is unavoidable, not only because of the unyielding truth-claims he makes for himself, but because at the heart of his message and purpose is the bold insistence that men and women can be rightly related to God only if they know him and come to him on his terms. This unabashed, exclusivist, either/or mentality lies at the heart of the New Testament, and can be removed only by radical surgery on the documents. To resort to such devices because we are uncomfortable with the historical Jesus is merely another way of saying that we reject him in favor of a tame Jesus, a domesticated Jesus who will not challenge us or tell us we are wrong, force us to rethink our most fundamental assumptions, or question our most cherished priorities.”

Quote found in the blog post, Peace on Earth and Interfaith Dialogue on Culture Watch by Bill Muehlenberg.

You can see an updated list of all the basic definitions I have posted so far on Google Docs.