Marginal Christianity

MAY 19, 2014  |  BY:  NOAH STEPRO   0 COMMENTS http://www.missioalliance.org/roadmaps-vs-a-compass/?utm_content=buffer1e463&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer A Cultural  Earthquake Hookup culture,  underemployment , new immigration,  global communications  and a 4 hour workweek…what do they all have in common? The aftermath from a massive cultural  earthquake . These are manifestations  of the  tremors from the transition to a  postindustrial  society that is highly educated, hyper-individualistic and maybe a  little  cynical. Growing up in LA I have experienced a number of large  earth  quakes, but nothing truly catastrophic…nothing that actually altered the landscape…but these have and will  continue  to occur. The “Big One” comes and liquefies the landscape making it unrecognizable…landmarks and  routes  are moved or completely dest...

10 Commandments of Biblical Interpretation 1.     You shall love nothing more than the triune God.   2.     You shall put nothing in God’s place – not even scripture, not to mention an ideology, cause, or tradition.   3.     You shall not use Scripture to justify or place God’s imprimatur on our causes or agendas.   4.     You shall respect the objective givenness of the Bible, standing under it in order to understand it.   5.     You shall honor the interpretations of our forebears and their efforts to summarize the meaning of the Bible (e.g.. regula fidei).   6.     Do not use the Bible to “clobber” others.   7.     Do not use the Bible to authorize idolatry (e.g., leading others to follow other gods, imposing alien agendas on scripture, acting as though we, and we alone, understand the Bible).   8....