Gospel // George Hunsberger

by bleedingoutloud on 02/14/2012

“It is always an exercise in community, wrestling to say the gospel with a common voice, as these four authors have done. It has been their experience that their own different takes on the gospel have pushed them each to keep that faith more fully-not captivated by a current trend, nor pretending that they can do anything other than give a reading, a rendering in this time and place, with the mental and language tools our culture gives us, of what was originally announced as the good news. This is no search for some “pure gospel unadulterated by any cultural accretions”-which, as Lesslie Newbigin has had to remind so many of us in the West, is in any case an illusion. Rather, it is a search for a careful and powerful way of putting this story for this generation.”

The Story That Chooses Us, George Hunsberger

There are 2 comments in this article:

  1. 02/14/2012Katie Terpstra says:

    Thank you for posting this. I have been on a journey to read the Bible cover to cover and finally just made it to the NT after many months of blood, sweat, and tears. Honestly, I felt like some of the OT was a little repetitive and dare I say, LONG, but now as I’m reading through the Gospels with the OT story fresh in my mind, I find Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s accounts to be extraordinary in a way that this grew-up-in-the-church girl never realized. God’s story. Remarkable.

  2. 02/14/2012bleedingoutloud says:

    Well done! I’ll never forget a study I was a part of a few years ago. Each Tuesday we’d get together to discuss Exodus. Our preparation for the discussion meant reading the entire book of Exodus in one sitting every week. There are some really repetitive parts.

    There are so many implications to this, but what I appreciate is that people like Moses, Jeremiah, David, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul all found ways to tell the same story but they told it in their day and their way (I’m stealing that from Scot McKnight). That’s the question for us as we try to figure out what it means to live the gospel, for our story to collide with God’s story. How do we live in compelling ways for our times this same story that has been unfolding for so long? How do we learn to live as a foretaste of the redemption of all things that the story has always been headed towards? What would that look like in a marriage? In a business? In a classroom? In a conversation? In a hospital room?

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