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what are you afraid of?

I asked the crowd at church “what are you afraid of” Yesterday was a great first full day, I taught at one of my favorite churches on the planet (admittedly, there are several of them) at South Budapest (click here to see their website) and had some good catch up conversations with folks there after which, Will and Joanna took me out to lunch and then a quiet afternoon. At 17:00, the whole northern Hungary gang gathered for pizza where I asked Laci to brief us on his trip to Bosnia. This made me pretty excited about my trip there in a couple of weeks and hopeful for deeper partnership there… even English teachers??? We’ll see. Now there’s a place where you might ought to fear talking about the Gospel out loud, but they are not. So the answer to our fear about “gospeling” (proclaiming the news about Jesus as coined by Scot McKnight in King Jesus Gospel.

This is a talk I am taking around with me that is a reminder about what the Gospel actually is and what we are to do with it, why we don’t and how to fix the why. So there is the question… as far as proclaiming the news about Jesus, what are you afraid of?

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some travelin readin

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place of horror, place of rebuilding

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4 questions

Here are four questions I use to think about my life in light of the Greatest Commandment…

What does my mouth tell me about the condition of my heart?

What do my fears tell me about what I really believe? Trusting God – Jer 17.5-8 & Hab. 3.17-19

What am I doing to renew my mind that I may deepen my understanding of God? Rom. 12.1-2, Eph. 4.17-24

What are the things in my life which take my strength away from God’s use.
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How do I answer these with following the practice of Sabbath
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Christian Apologetics

“religious pluralism is a normative thesis about diversity…”

“the bad news: no religion is true
the good news: it doesn’t matter; it will all turn out okay in the end”

“religious pluralism looks a lot like secularism w/ incense

if i am beginning to understand this issue… i am understanding that Jesus is a great model for the dialogue needed with postmodern friends, he was a great question asker, he acted with compassion…

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why we should understand…

Millard Erickson gives an excellent introduction to the issue of understanding postmodernism in Christian Theology.

“Modernism, with its ‘belief in the rationality of the universe,’ has been the hallmark of the of the twentieth century. Today, however, there has been growing dissatisfaction with the modern view. The result has been the emergence of the postmodern movement, which is affecting every area of intellectual endeavor, including theology. It is important for Christians to understand postmodernism and to construct a theology to evidence awareness of and response to it. Some aspects of postmodernism are compatible with and supportive of biblical Christian theology, while other parts are antagonistic. Christian theology needs to support and use the former while rejecting the latter.” (p. 158)

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