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2 witness and withness

3 witness to what? Jesus which Jesus? the gospel which gospel?

4 framing Jesus and the gospel

5 sdrawkcab gnidaer Rick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus

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7 Eden Heaven Fall Salvation Fallen History/ Fallen world Hell

8 Platonic Ideal Platonic Ideal Fall Into Aristotelian Real Aristotelian Real Atonement, purification Hades

9 Pax Romana Pax Romana rebellion barbarianism civilization development assimilation Torture Death

10 Pax Romana Pax Romana rebellion barbarianism civilization development assimilation Torture Death This is a totalizing metanarrative - an us-them story that legitimates domination, supremacy, racism, enslavement, exploitation, colonization, genocide.

11 Christendom Christendom rebellion barbarianism heathenism paganism secularism relativism salvation/atonement/redemption conquistadores, colonization civilization, culture war Eternal Conscious Torment in Hell

12 in this frame - who is Jesus? in this frame - what is the gospel?

13 is there an alternative frame?

14 sdrawkcab gnidaer Rick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus reading forwards Adam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Moses, David, Isaiah, Elizabeth, John the Baptist, Mary, Jesus >

15 Exodus: Liberation & Formation

16 Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation

17 Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation

18 Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation Not a totalizing metanarrative - But a multi-narrative that creates a story-space (not a storyline) in which a million good stories can emerge.

19 G e n e s i s C r e a t i o n Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Exodus: Liberation & Formation

20 G e n e s i s C r e a t i o n DESTRUCTION Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy VIOLENCE DOMINATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

21 G e n e s i s c r e a t i o n Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Destroying the world? Abandoning the world? Healing the world? Exodus: Liberation & Formation

22 G e n e s i s CREATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

23 G e n e s i s CRISIS CREATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

24 G e n e s i s CALLING CRISIS CREATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

25 G e n e s i s CAPTIVITY CALLING CRISIS CREATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

26 G e n e s i s CONQUEST CAPTIVITY CALLING CRISIS CREATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation

27 G e n e s i s CALLING CRISIS CREATION CONVERSATION CONQUEST CAPTIVITY Exodus: Liberation & Formation

28 G e n e s i s CALLING CRISIS CREATION CHRIST CONVERSATION CONQUEST CAPTIVITY Exodus: Liberation & Formation

29 God s will world God s beauty, goodness, truth, justice, peace, joy. church self

30 what is witness in this framing of Jesus and the gospel?

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32 Salvation...

33 Salvation... from God?

34 Salvation... from God? Salvation... from our sins? (our cycles of violence - as victims or perpetrators)

35 Jesus died for our sins.

36 Jesus died for our sins. As a payment? As a substitute?

37 Jesus died for our sins. As a payment? As a substitute? I took an aspirin for my headache. I exercise for my weight.

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39 Method = Way Religion as System of Beliefs or Way of Life?

40 What is the Christian way of life?

41 What is the one greatest commandment? You shall have the correct beliefs system! (not)

42 What is the one greatest commandment? Love and the second is equally important

43 Jesus Paul John James

44 Love 101: neighbor stranger outsider/outcast enemy

45 Love 201: self not selfish not self-hating

46 Love 301: the earth all creation for neighbors & self for God s sake

47 Love 401: God

48 People who are learning to love their neighbors, themselves and the earth will not find it hard to learn to love God, because God will not be for them a doctrine or theory separate from or inconsistent with what they already love. Rather, in their experience of love for neighbor, self and creation, they will already have experienced God, because, as Richard Rohr says, God is an event of communion. 11 They will already have come, as the Quakers say, to love and reverence that of God in every one. So in Love 401, people learn to recognize and love the familiar light they see radiant in everything they already love. They learn to inhabit God as the loving reality in which they live and move and have their being, the allencompassing event of communion in which they have experienced countless events of communion. Each experience of love itself, they will realize, has been an experience of God, for, as John said in the New Testament, Love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God for God is love (1 John 4:7 8).

49 Yes, loving a distant and theoretical God who must be approached through complex belief systems can indeed be tough even exhausting, mentally and emotionally. But loving the God who is experienced in love for neighbor, self and creation comes as naturally as breathing. A character from Dostoevsky s The Brothers Karamazov captures it perfectly:

50 Love all of God s creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God s light. Love animals, love plants, love each thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin tirelessly to perceive more and more of it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an entire, universal love.

51 love God know know creation LOVE CYCLE love people love know know self love Love can only begin from knowing God, as love comes from God. As we live out the mandate of loving others, self and creation,

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56 HEAVEN self (soul) church world

57 HEAVEN (God s will) world church self

58 witness and withness why? for whom?

59 witness and withness

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