Search Results: contract
Getting Married or Buying a Car?
Category: General
Tags: Faith, ReKnew
…willingness to entrust their life to another and to live in a trustworthy way toward another. Though they may look similar at first glance, covenants are very different than contracts. In contracts people don’t pledge their lives to each other, they simply enter into legal arrangements. A contract involves a…
The Good News That’s Really “Good”
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Faith, Good News, Salvation
…means “good news”—are about the specific terms of a contract between God and us that allow us to remain acquitted and thereby stay out of prison. When our relationship with God gets framed in terms of a legal contract, people are inclined to treat the Bible like a confusing litigation…
The Myth of a Christian Religion
Category: General
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues, Following Jesus
…by two-thirds! It turns out the original contract, which I never bothered to consult, called for a 50,000 word manuscript. Now, you might legitimately wonder how I could have worked eighteen months on a book without consulting the original contract – especially after the first five chapters had already been…
Have You Taken a Gospel Immunization Shot?
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Faith, Kingdom Living
Topics: Apologetics
…contract of acquittal that is signed by praying the sinner’s prayer or some such thing. Nor is it surprising that this powerless version of the gospel absorbs rather than confronts the culture of the people who sign this contract. Within this gospel, people give their mental assent to certain beliefs…
Washing Osama’s Feet – blog post 8/28/07
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence
…IS Great,” and most accurately, “Jesus – Still Too Radical?” Heavenly Sanctuary had contracts with several malls in the Seattle area to hang these posters advertising their conference, but no sooner had the posters gone up than angry calls began flooding the malls. Many people — but, it seems, mostly…
Washing Osama’s Feet
Category: General
…contract and take the posters down. The Christian College that Heavenly Sanctuary was renting space from to host the Conference also canceled their contract. Brad had to scramble to find a secular venue (which, ironically, had no problems with the poster). What does this say about how many American Christians…
Court-of-Law Theology: How It Falls Short
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Theology
…couples blush! But they are serious! This is what happens when people frame their relationship with God in terms of a legal contract. Reasoning like clever lawyers, they assume that if the acquittal-contract doesn’t explicitly close a loophole they’ve uncovered, they have the “right” to take it with impunity. (116-119)…
God as Covenant Keeper
Category: General
Tags: Covenant, Salvation, Trinity
Topics: Attributes and Character
Covenant lies at the heart of the biblical understand of God’s relationship to the world. Simply put, a covenant stands in contrast to a contract where parties enter into a quid pro quo arrangement. With a contract an agreement is made to protect oneself. With a covenant, one commits oneself…
Covenant vs. Contract
Category: General
Topics: Faith & Doubt
https://vimeo.com/154888993 Here’s another video clip that came out of Greg’s interviews with Travis Reed from The Work of the People. Is your faith covenantal or contractual?…
Is 2020 Judgment from God?
Category: General, Guest Contributor
…judgment then and it isn’t judgment now. In fact, the idea of national judgment is bad theology. It harkens back to a time when we believed God had a nation-level, behavioral contract with a specific people. Now we have a personal-level relationship with God that is open to all people…
How can I feel secure in my salvation?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Q&A, Salvation, Security
Topics: Death and Salvation
…a couple lives in these kind of questions, they’re in a pretty sick marriage! The right question in marriage is; “How can I grow in my capacity to love and please my spouse?” A marriage isn’t a legal contract, it’s a relational covenant. See the difference? I don’t worry about…
Do My Prayers Matter?
Category: General
Tags: Prayer
…of trying to twist God’s arm—or that history unfolds and evils come upon people by chance, which means that praying is useless. Wanderhope, correctly, does not attribute to the will of God the arbitrary way in which some contract tuberculosis and others do not. He is correct to reject prayer…
Is Greg Too Progressive for Today’s Evangelicalism?
Category: General
Tags: Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Orthodoxy, Progressive Christianity, Roger Olson, Thomas Oord
…on with a temporary contract while he makes his transition away from the University.) Oord has been open about his rejection of young earth creationism and acceptance of evolution and is also an open theist. Although the University claimed that the termination was driven by financial concerns, there are a…
Featured Sermon Series: Scandalous Love
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: God, Greg Boyd, Kingdom Living, Love, Sermons, Theodicy, Theology, Woodland Hills Church
…Covenantal Love The love of God expressed in Christ on the cross shows the radical lengths God is willing to go to restore us. This healing of our relationship with God takes the form of a covenant, not a contract. SERMON 4: Victorious Love God’s love is victorious! But…
The Cross Above All Else
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Communion, Cruciform Theology, Faith, Jesus
…“the testimony of God” to Corinth, he hadn’t come “with eloquence of human wisdom.” He instead “resolved to know nothing … except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:1-2). … Everything we are to trust God for is found in the cross. We are not involved in a contract…
Sermon Clip: Twisted Scripture-Romans 10
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Greg Boyd, ReKnew, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
…more holistic salvation that involves wholeness, new life, and transformation. Instead of viewing salvation as a legal contract, we are invited to join Jesus in a covenantal marriage where his life is poured out for us and our lives are poured out for him. View the full sermon here: http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/twisted-scripture-romans-10…
Review of Proof of Heaven (Eben Alexander)
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Heaven, Proof of Heaven
…Proof of Heaven several weeks ago after hearing about it on a T.V. talk show. What initially intrigued me about this book was that this Near Death Experience (NDE) account was from a reputable neurosurgeon (Eben Alexander) who had inexplicably contracted an extremely rare form of bacterial meningitis that literally…