the good news of the Old Testament is precisely the promise and undying hope that Yahweh, the God of Israel, would triumph over evil, would reign as king and would bring salvation to the ends of the earth.
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Mission Is: Fivefold
In the previous post in this series, I included a quote from Hannes Wiher, who reviewed the way in which different scholars see mission starting at different points in the Biblical narrative. I then wrote the following: For my part, I would argue that mission starts at the creation narrative in the book of Genesis. […]
What looks like defeat is victory. And Jesus, the Child, the undefeated, the Shepherd, the bearer of the staff-scepter, of the tribe of Judah and the village of Bethlehem, the slayer of the dragon and the protector of his people, is Lord and King and Saviour. Halleluiah. Amen.
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Mission? The Book of Job? What?
An encounter with Yahweh is transformative: mission and the book of Job.
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It’s Not Just About Jesus
We can read the OT as both pointing to Jesus and as an ethical guide; the one does not have to negate the other.
I found this book rather frustrating and sometimes irritating. But it is a good book and deserves to be read.
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Bible and Mission Links 33
Reading OT prophecy, misunderstanding the mission movement, two ways to look at consumerism and some thoughts about change.
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When Lord Doesn’t Mean Lord
Bible translation can be quite complicated, you know!
Whichever way you look at it and with all of the possible caveats in place, there is still huge amount of Scripture translation work that remains. Suggestions that the task of Bible translation is close to completion are very premature.
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The Whole Bible and Mission
Messianic and missional reading of the Old Testament – that’s what Jesus instructed his disciples to do. We have been fairly good at the first, but pretty lamentable at the second.