Dec 20, 2017
Gospel is bigger than the "plan of Salvation" or bigger than the
question of "where am I going to go when I die? Heaven or Hell?"
The story of the Bible in big picture is to restore the original
“Garden of Eden”, where we were able to walk with God daily,
intimately, unashamed. Jesus came to restore that intimacy for all
of us.
Jesus breaks down tribalism. We look at denominations, and
doctrine, and how we tend to leave tension earlier than we
should.
Check out the Welcoming Prayer, posted on Episode 6 post on
www.desirelinepodcast.com/listen.
Contemplative prayer connected to focus, and Philippians 4:6+7.
Cultural understanding of individualized culture that we live in in
the West, and using Susette's experience with her husbands family
in Mexican-American culture in examples of family
centered/collectivist culture that's closer to 1st century
Judaism.
How have we interpreted the idea of salvation through our Western
eyes, while trying to live by the Bible, who's authors do not come
from a Western American perspective culturally?
“Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has
become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic
status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to
incanting anemic souls into heaven, it has, by a kind of ignorance,
been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most
part, stood silently by, while a predatory economy has ravaged the
world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and
plundered its human communities and households. It has flown the
flag and chanted the slogans of empire.
Wendell Berry
N.T. Wright Book: The Day the Revolution Began
Here's some video/podcast recommendations for N.T. Wright:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1GSVR0Tdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AukgNlAgiI
Scot McKnight: What is the Gospel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HdyhUQ3Krs
Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-n-t-wright-podcast/id447840163?mt=2
If you're interested in connecting with Susette re: online
therapy (if you live in California), you can contact her here:
www.susettemagana.com/contact
www.desirelinepodcast.com/connect