Imperishable Inheritance

Well, I'm still plugging through Perspectives and struggling with some of the issues. First of all being the contexualization of the gospel. I need to realize that even my translation of the Bible has dynamic equivalence, but how much is it truly contextualized? Ralph Winter talks about P/E-Scales (that is degrees of evangelism and presence of churches), but I fail to see how much of this really makes an impact in missions mobilization.

I'm reading a book called The Meaning of the Millennium: 4 Views, and it is a page turner! I mean it truly is a riveting read. I now understanding what eschatology is truly about: The Kingdom of God. Wow, what an epiphany! The book, thus far, has been largely a debate between three covenant theologians and one dispensationalist; but the logic seems to be (as Loraine Boettner argues), that if the theological foundation of dispensationalism is unfounded then so is all their eschatology. I empathize with the dispensationlist's desire to have a consistent hermeneutic, but sticking to all literal or all figurative robs the Bible of so much truth.

A speaker came in, name Steve Shadrach, and he talked about discipleship (he is also the visionary behind the Traveling Team); and we were talking, and I brought up the lordship debate between Ryrie and MacArthur. He then proceeded to tell me (he went to DTS) about how close Ryrie and him got through Ryrie's divorce. I felt so bad. I apologized to him today though.

Lastly, politics. Yes, politics is becoming an issue here again. Not a big one, but when I told some guys I voted for Kerry some weren't happy. First of all two comments need to be made: (1) both candidates were bad and neither had the big picture in focus instead their large base of constituents while aiming for the middle, and (2) a lot of people make asinine political decisions. And those people who are so hard-headed have no desire to have any meaningful dialog. I'm glad I left politics (which I was much more involved in than theology/philosophy a few years ago) to doing more constructive things. It's like people have complete blinders over their eyes. That's why I respect my brother Perry so much, because even though he has convictions he'll still listen to the other side in a peaceful manner.