10/14/2018
Genesis 22:1-18
Chris Breslin
“The church is a countercultural community of discipleship, and this community is the primary addressee of God’s imperatives.” -Richard Hays
“Yahweh was setting up Abraham to undergo ‘a massive paradigm shift from a god who requires sacrifice to a God who makes sacrifice.” -Gregory Boyd
“[Christian] sacrifice does not consist in a giving of what God would not have without us but in our becoming totally receptive and letting ourselves be completely taken over by him. Letting God act on us—that is Christian sacrifice…In this form of worship human achievements are not placed before God; on the contrary, it consists in man’s letting himself be endowed with gifts.” –Pope Benedict XVI (née Joseph Ratzinger)
“God has chosen Abraham to be a kind of prism, catching the light of blessing and diffusing it into every corner of our sin-darkened world.” -Ellen F. Davis
“I am a child of God, one in whom Christ dwells, and I am living in the unshakable kingdom of God” -James Bryan Smith
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Have Mercy on Me by Gungor/Phillips
River Where Mercy Flows by Miller
How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk
Beautiful Things by Gungor/Gungor
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg/Nouwen
Abraham by Stevens
Doxology
Further Reading:
The Crucifixion of the Warrior Godby Gregory Boyd
A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Storyby Michael Goheen
The Art of Reading Scriptureed Ellen Davis & Richard Hays
The Very Good Gospelby Lisa Sharon Harper
Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creationby Richard Hays
Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nationsby Walter Kaiser
Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian, a Readerby Lesslie Newbigin
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrativeby Christopher J. H. Wright
Simply Christian: Why Christianity MakesSenseby N.T. Wright
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