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CHRIST THE KING What on earth have you been banging on about in your sermons? Three groups of Questions:

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Page 1: What on earth have you been banging on about in your sermons?  Three groups of Questions:

CHRIST THE KING

What on earth have you been banging on about in your sermons?

Three groups of Questions:

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Will the boiler be updated?

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What do you in private?

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AS A CORE COMMITMENT CHRISTIANS SHOULD:

1. Follow the teaching of Jesus2. Follow the teaching of the

New Testament3. Follow the example of Jesus4. Follow Jesus5. None of the above.

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PARISH PROFILE:

Task: To lead ‘an open, ongoing search for understanding of what it means to be individuals, and a community, of faith today.’

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Who or What is the Word of God?What is a sermon?

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Action Reflection

Worship

Study

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IDEAS VS ACTION

Isn’t it more important to do things than talk about things?

Isn’t theology a load of ..........?

Mark, Luke, Matthew, John, James,Paul, Peter,,..................

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DIFFERENT THEOLOGICAL INFLUENCES (YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU HAD)

Incarnation (Christ being with us in creation) Anglicanism from 1750) Response to the Enlightenment

Crucifixion (Puritanism, Pietism and European evangelicalism from Reformation onwards. Also Roman Catholicism in different periods.)Response to Medieval Platonism

Resurrection (From 1890-1920: PT. Forsyth and Charles Finney etc.) Response to Modernism

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WE WILL ONE DAY KNOW AS WE ARE NOW KNOWN 1 COR. 13: 12(ST. PAUL , JACQUES DERRIDA & MIKHAIL BAHKTIN)

Ascension Theology: Response to Post modernism

Challenges: How do know definitely anything is ‘true’? What is the teaching of New Testament? Which example of Jesus? Biblical Response: All that I know now is

partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely... (promise delivered through in Ascension)

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WHAT SHOULD WE BE ‘DOING’?

Worship What is worship?

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Worship is not something we ‘do’ (Ego).

The Ascended Christ worships the Father.

We are invited to be caught up in the Sons communication with the Father (Perichoresis)

The ascension, through worship, is preparing us to enter God’s inner life.

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Magnus Carlsen: World Chess Champion

The Future

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Neo-Dialectica

l Materialis

m balanced by Neo-Eternalis

m

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WHAT DID THAT MEAN?

Humanity is good even if fallen But will be even better because of

Ascension

BALANCE