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    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission
    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission
    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission
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    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission

    Written by Christopher J.H. Wright

    Narrated by Christopher J.H. Wright

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    The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.

     

    The typical Christian understanding of "missions" encompasses only a small part of God's overarching mission in the world. But God is relentlessly reclaiming the entire world for himself. In The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures author and international ministries expert Chris Wright explores how God's big-picture plan directs the purpose of God's people, the church.

     

    Each session emphasizes what the Old Testament teaches Christians about being the people of God and addresses both ecclesiology and missiology with topics like "called to care for creation," "called to bless the nations," "sending and being sent," and "rejecting false gods."

     

    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures provide pastors, teachers, students, and lay learners with first-rate biblical study while at the same time addressing the practical concerns of contemporary ministry. The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures enliven and refocus the study, teaching, and ministry of those truly committed to joining God's work in the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan Academic
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9780310586289
    The Mission of God's People: Audio Lectures: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission
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    Christopher J.H. Wright

    Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is the international director of the Langham Partnership International. His books include Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, The Mission of God, The Message of Ezekiel, The Message of Jeremiah and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament.

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    • 2/5
      Some very good theology, mixed with terrible discernment and some erroneous teaching.

      PROS
      + The book includes many wonderful teachings and I would give 5 stars for the first third of the book. Truly wonderful, but then it goes down rapidly as seen below.

      + Very good balance between the Old and New Testament.

      + Well stated that people were saved by grace already before Exodus 19.

      + Beautiful teaching, that we ought to pray for the welfare of hostile environments we are in, in the same way the Israelites were even asked to pray for the welfare of Babylon.

      + Very wise decision to have narrated the book by its author.


      CONS
      - He wrongly stated that obedience is no condition to salvation. While this is possibly not stated as such in the Bible, it is unquestionably implied throughout the Bible. No obedience, certainly no salvation.

      - He made the very dubious claim that the biblical authors borrowed a term from the Romans, when they used the word 'Gospel', being better translated with 'Good Message' and in its original the word 'ΕΥ̓ΑΓΓΈΛΙΟΝ' (evangelium). This claim is false, because the Greek Old Testament, which is the text the 1st c. church received as authoritative, includes the very same word already in 2Sam 4:10, when David received the 'Good News' of Saul's death (although not being such in David's eyes).

      - The author equated in the book circumcision with the keeping of the Weekly Sabbath. I had to re-listen to the passage, in the hope that he mentioned Sabbaths in plural form, which would have correctly pointed to the Laws of Moses and not to the Law of THEOS given with creation. It is a mystery why he had 612 other options to chose from and chose the Weekly Sabbath, which he implied is mentioned in Acts 15 (which is clearly not) and which he (in)directly implied to be abolished. This is heretical and truly surprising for someone with a PHD. Every student of the Bible knows very well that the Weekly Sabbath was essentially part of the 10 commandments intensified by JESUS, and only certain aspects of the WS were part of the Law of Moses (those aspects being abolished but obviously not the main law itself). While we can be glad that he did not teach the Catholic 6/10 theology, a 9/10 theology is not much better. Either we keep the Moral Law or we fail it. There is no middle ground.

      - He taught several times in the book the polytheistic term 'Lord of lords'. But nowhere in the Greek text is found the noun 'lords' (or sometimes even translated with captial 'Lords'), but the participle 'ΚΥΡΙΟϹ ΤꞶΝ ΚΥΡΙΕΥΟΝΤꞶΝ'. The only correct translations are 'Lord of the ones dominating' (ABP), 'Lord of those that exercise lordship' (DBY), 'Lord of them that wield lordship' (EBR). There is a significant difference between a temporal action and a permanent title. Polytheism does not (only) begin in the minds of the readers, it begins with the words of translators and studied ministers like him who propagate those erroneous translations.

      - He taught about the Jerusalem assembly as a council, which is not biblical. In the Bible there is a specific word for 'council', and it is not being used in Acts 15. It was an assembly - the text using the very same word as for every church gathering. It was certainly a special assembly, but we have to be cautious when using the word 'council', as this 'Jerusalem council' had been abused as a basis to legitimize a lot of not-so-biblical councils, mainly driven by his (Catholic) church.

      - The book is essentially a pamphlet for the Lausanne Movement, which is over and over being referenced to in the book.

      - He endorsed Billy Graham as 'great evangelist', which is a serious transgression (strong tendency towards universalism, key figure in the ecumenical movement; close collaboration with the Vatican and the Pope; unfriendly takeover of Halley's Bible Handbook and deletion of Jesuit references; advised his friend Nixon to end the Vietnam conflict in a blaze of glory; trained women pastors; great admirer of the 33° Mason Norman Vincent Peale; trained Rick Warren; taught theistic evolution; promoted the Alpha Course).

      - The author comes from a Calvinist (Presbyterian) background / family, but (or rather and) attends a Catholic (Anglican) Church, All Souls in London.

      - He quoted twice the Calvinist John Piper, and also a certain Don Carson, who probably refers to D.A. Carson, also a Calvinist. Another Calvinist he quoted is Lesslie Newbigin.

      - He endorsed at the end of the book the Winston Churchill, who is very well known to have been a Freemason. This is truly shocking. Why do so many PHD's not even know such essential basics? Is there no discernment being taught at universities?

      - He criticized two of the elders / ministers of his church (one being a former minister) in public, but did not state if he had conversations with those two people before bringing the matter into a book. The context implied a good and valid example, but why had he to mention those specifics (although not the names)?

      Overall a book that saddens me. It started out as a wonderful book, but turned out to be problematic.