Ep. 22 - The Power of a Robust Gospel with Rev. Dr. Dennis R. Edwards

Join us as Rev. Dr. Dennis R. Edwards helps introduces us to a robust Gospel and helps you understand how your perspective and social location can affect your interpretation of scripture, what we can learn about God and the Bible from voices on the margins, and what it looks like to embody the Gospel in the community of the Church.

00:00 - Introduction

01:48 - Patreon

02:24 - Defining a robust Gospel

03:44 - Seeing Jesus across scripture

05:14 - How does our perspective affect our biblical understanding

07:18 - How new perspectives help us reform our own

11:00 - Balancing the power of our understanding with the power of God’s voice

14:48 - Discerning God’s voice from our human perspectives

16:35 - What aspects of justice do we overlook in the Bible

19:11 - Understanding individual and communal aspects of sin

23:31 - The meaning of liberation

25:51 - Individual responsibility in responding to sin

28:40 - Future-focused and present-minded salvation messaging

30:42 - Our work vs. God’s work

32:38 - The Gospel embodied in community

34:53 - Creating genuine community in a church environment

38:00 - Connecting the church to the Church

40:07 - Moving from interpretation to application

43:45 - What is universal in applying scripture

44:59 - What can we learn from people on the margins

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Links:

Might from the Margins - https://heraldpress.com/9781513806013/might-from-the-margins/

Humility Illuminated - https://www.ivpress.com/humility-illuminated

North Park Theological Seminary - https://seminary.northpark.edu/