Creative Incarnation
Deep breath.
It feels good to be back home. I love driving across the 14th street bridge and through the tunnel back onto Capitol Hill.
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at the Transforming Culture Conference. It was definitely my sweet spot. C.S. Lewis said, "Every life consists of a few themes." Reaching emerging generations, right-brain preaching, and transforming culture are definitely a few of my themes. I'm so passionate about those topics that I could talk about them all day long. But no one would listen all day long so I was limited to 90 minutes :)
I talked about creative incarnation today. I talked quite a bit about the way we're wired neurologically and the implications for pastors. Creative incarnation is all about redeeming cultural metaphors and using them as trojan horses to communicate the gospel. No one did it better than Jesus!
Why did Jesus use agricultural metaphors to talk about the Kingdom of God? Because he lived in an agrarian society. He translated truth into the cognitive categories that his hearers would understand. That is one of our most important and most challenging tasks as preachers.
Incarnation is hard work. But it is non-negotiable is we're serious about communicating like Christ.
Irrelevance is irreverence.
It feels good to be back home. I love driving across the 14th street bridge and through the tunnel back onto Capitol Hill.
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at the Transforming Culture Conference. It was definitely my sweet spot. C.S. Lewis said, "Every life consists of a few themes." Reaching emerging generations, right-brain preaching, and transforming culture are definitely a few of my themes. I'm so passionate about those topics that I could talk about them all day long. But no one would listen all day long so I was limited to 90 minutes :)
I talked about creative incarnation today. I talked quite a bit about the way we're wired neurologically and the implications for pastors. Creative incarnation is all about redeeming cultural metaphors and using them as trojan horses to communicate the gospel. No one did it better than Jesus!
Why did Jesus use agricultural metaphors to talk about the Kingdom of God? Because he lived in an agrarian society. He translated truth into the cognitive categories that his hearers would understand. That is one of our most important and most challenging tasks as preachers.
Incarnation is hard work. But it is non-negotiable is we're serious about communicating like Christ.
Irrelevance is irreverence.
1 Comments:
Those are themes that echo my heart, bro. Keep after them, but never let your life be determined by themes in as much as they are directed by the Story Teller.
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