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Who is the Prodigal God, What is his Prodigal Mission, and How Can We become His Prodigal People? (5)

          The final three signposts F & H identify are where “the rubber hits the road.”   They are also in my opinion the most exciting and ground-breaking sections of the book, worth the price of the book (or especially the Kindle version).   This is where the theology sketched in the first seven signposts takes on flesh (incarnation).   In other words, it is in these sections where it truly becomes theology!           These three signposts take us right into the middle of some of the most vexing and divisive matters the church and society face today.   I’m not going to play spoiler for these signposts.   I want to leave them for you to read and savor yourself.   They are richly narrative coming out of the life of Life on the Vine church.   They are creative postmodern theological reflections on ministry at these knotty places in the church’s life...