Marginal Christianity

(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/07/22/the-mission-of-god-a-sketch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Blog+-+Jesus+Creed%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher) Scot McKnight Here is an outline of God’s mission, mostly drawn from the Gospel of John and its use of the word “send,” I sketched in my preparations for the teaching at SommerOase in Denmark. This sketch was the theological foundation of my talks. Dansk Oase July 2012 Introduction: Theme: Who is God? (in mission) 1.0 Mission Begins IN God. “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). “the Father is in me, and I in the Father” (10:38; 17:21, 23). Now a brief sketch of a major Christian doctrine, the Trinity, and its connection to mission. 1. God has been eternally missional, is missional, and will be missional forever. (Eschatology is inherent.) 2. Why? Because the Trinity is mutual indwelling in love for the Other. 3. God is essentiall...

1 John 1:1-2:2 11 We announce to you what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have seen and our hands handled, about the word of life. 2 The life was revealed, and we have seen, and we testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us. 3 What we have seen and heard, we also announce it to you so that you can have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We are writing these things so that our joy can be complete. 5 This is the message that we have heard from him and announce to you: “God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.” 6 If we claim, “We have fellowship with him,” and live in the darkness, we are lying and do not act truthfully. 7 But if we live in the light in the same way as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from every sin. 8 If we claim, “We don’t have a...