The gospel is good news before it is good advice. It tells us who Jesus is, what he has done, and what that means for our lives and our world.
The religious community I grew up in did not (and still doesn’t) believe the Holy Spirit is active today. They would agree that, certainly, the early years of the Christian church were marked by the miraculous, but argue that sometime in the first or second century, it – the Holy Spirit – was essentially “put on ice.”
I was a different person back then. At least I’d like to think so. Dogmatic. Self-assured. Self-righteous. It’s hard to know for sure. What part is personality, what part is learned
I’m in Bible College this year, working towards a Diploma in Biblical Theology (this will, I know, NOT COME AS A SHOCK TO SOME OF YOU…) and really, it’s the dream of a lifetime to spend 5+ hours each week in biblical conversation with others of a similar persuasion.