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- Model Theological Conference Audio Now Available
HT: Lutheran Kantor
The LCMS Commission on Worship and Commission for Theology and Church Relations has made available audio and transcripts from the Model Theological Conference that I attended in January.
I highly recommend the Disc Two presentation by Dr. Jeff Gibbs. I don’t see the audio from Dr. Arthur Just’s response to Dr. Charles Arand’s presentation, or I would recommend that highly as well.
A sample of Dr. Gibbs:
My point is this, and it is not just a point about exegesis or word-studies or something that only ivory-tower academics like me would care about. The point is this: In every letter, Paul proclaims the glories of Christ! Everywhere, the NT writers are obsessed with, captured by, grounded in the great story of God for the world, the story that has been fulfilled in Christ, is happening now in Christ, and will someday come to its great climax in Christ. But there are lots and lots of promises, and the Scripture never tires of declaring how wide and deep and strong is the love of Christ, so that God will be present, and God’s people can hear those promises and, if the Spirit wills, grasp the promises and be sent out as part of God’s plan for the world. God’s people NEED—you and I need to hear the promises of God and all the glory of Christ. I need to know again the danger and darkness and alienation and death from which God in Jesus has saved us, and filled us with light, and reconciled us, made us alive to be his and serve him. And I know that you may disagree with me, and I hope that I am wrong. But I do not think it is happening. Our preaching of Christ is limited and cliché-ridden; orthodox, to be sure, but far too often aiming at no real target. The Reformation of the Church in the 16th century went forth from the printing press and from the pulpit. God is present among his people through his Word, and crucially, through his PREACHED Word. And I am suggesting—I believe—that we are faltering badly in preaching the glories of Christ; what God has done, is doing, and will do through His Son, Jesus.
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