Comments on: ★ Is the Bible “Missional?” http://www.toddhiestand.com/is-the-bible-missional/05/ Field Notes on Bi-Vocational Church Leadership in Suburban America Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Bible and Mission « fuzzy orthodoxy http://www.toddhiestand.com/is-the-bible-missional/05/comment-page-1/#comment-41710 The Bible and Mission « fuzzy orthodoxy Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:40:12 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=1075#comment-41710 [...] Todd Hiestand, a number of weeks, perhaps even months ago, asked the question “Is the Bible Missional?“  He wrote some thoughts on it then, and follows up with a quote a few weeks later in [...] [...] Todd Hiestand, a number of weeks, perhaps even months ago, asked the question “Is the Bible Missional?“  He wrote some thoughts on it then, and follows up with a quote a few weeks later in [...]

]]> By: jim http://www.toddhiestand.com/is-the-bible-missional/05/comment-page-1/#comment-41479 jim Tue, 20 May 2008 15:10:50 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=1075#comment-41479 Good thoughts. A GREAT read on the "missional basis of the Bible" is Christopher J.H. Wright's "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative" (IVPAcademic). Just this morning I've been going through the OT to uncover examples of texts in the OT inspired by that book. How many times does God say things like, "so that I may be known" and how many tiimes does God say in effect "I'm doing this or that so that the nations may know I am God." It's all over the place. Consider the connection between worship, remembering the powerful acts of God and its relationship to testimony in Psalms. etc etc etc Bosch sort of skims over the missional character of the OT and Wright is a great corrective to that. Highly recommended. Good thoughts. A GREAT read on the “missional basis of the Bible” is Christopher J.H. Wright’s “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative” (IVPAcademic). Just this morning I’ve been going through the OT to uncover examples of texts in the OT inspired by that book. How many times does God say things like, “so that I may be known” and how many tiimes does God say in effect “I’m doing this or that so that the nations may know I am God.” It’s all over the place. Consider the connection between worship, remembering the powerful acts of God and its relationship to testimony in Psalms. etc etc etc

Bosch sort of skims over the missional character of the OT and Wright is a great corrective to that. Highly recommended.

]]> By: Pat http://www.toddhiestand.com/is-the-bible-missional/05/comment-page-1/#comment-41477 Pat Tue, 20 May 2008 04:41:02 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=1075#comment-41477 Oh yeah, and Jesus was forever getting into trouble for claiming he (and Israel) were sent not just to the Jews, but also the Gentiles (everybody else) also. Oh yeah, and Jesus was forever getting into trouble for claiming he (and Israel) were sent not just to the Jews, but also the Gentiles (everybody else) also.

]]> By: Pat http://www.toddhiestand.com/is-the-bible-missional/05/comment-page-1/#comment-41476 Pat Tue, 20 May 2008 03:52:14 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=1075#comment-41476 God sending humanity out of the garden was a missional event The post-Tower of Babel was a missional event Abram -> Abraham was a missional event The Trinity sending Christ into flesh was a missional event The Trinity sending the Spirit at Pentecost was a missional event Oh yeah, and then the whole "unto all the nations" bit in the end of the Gospels, that's a missional event And the destruction of the Temple causing the diaspora was a missional event. Some missional events are comfortable, others not so much. God sending humanity out of the garden was a missional event
The post-Tower of Babel was a missional event
Abram -> Abraham was a missional event
The Trinity sending Christ into flesh was a missional event
The Trinity sending the Spirit at Pentecost was a missional event
Oh yeah, and then the whole “unto all the nations” bit in the end of the Gospels, that’s a missional event
And the destruction of the Temple causing the diaspora was a missional event.

Some missional events are comfortable, others not so much.

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