How Do You Tell the Biblical Story? A Proposal
Everything in the life of the church starts, ends, and depends every step of the way on identity, God’s identity. And from that flows the church’s identity. God’s identity is confirmed in Consummation, adumbrated in Creation, and fully revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. 1. In creation, God inaugurated the realization of his dream – a community of humans to call his people and with whom he could live forever in loving fellowship on the creation. 2. Humanity’s rebellion trashed that dream and put humanity and creation in mortal disarray. Good established order – rebellious trashed disorder: the original revolution . 3. The rightful king, now the ruler in exile, begins a counter-revolutionary campaign of reclamation and restoration to subvert what humanity has become and demonstrate what God always wanted. In reclamation and restoration, God is a subversive counter-revolutionary . ...