The Gospel According To Keller's Report

One of the worst sayings in the entire English language is “opposites attract”. It is a cheap and “easy-way-out” excuse that uses the science of magnetism and energy to explain human emotions like love, and frankly, it is false. In romance, it is nearly impossible to be attracted to someone in a way that is not surface beauty if two people are just too different. Things like political views, food preferences, even sleeping patterns can be detrimental if they are too different. In saying that, it is easy to deduce that most people are not fond of the person they consider their “opposite”, and the same goes for characters in film or literature. For instance, in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are many examples of pairs that may seem like

The story The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller is the story of the Prodigal Son from a different point of view. The story is told from the vantage point that the main character is not the son that left but the son that stayed. Throughout the story, one son left and took his inheritance while the other stayed and worked for his father. When the son that left came home the other son was very angry. The way many people take this story is that it is a story of forgiveness and mercy, but one could argue that it is not a story on forgiveness and mercy but in fact a story on the unforgiving and ungraceful ways of people

Skeptics and believers alike encounter a variety of questions about Christianity. Whether those questions are the person’s own or are asked of them by someone else, the exploration of how to answer questions about faith, the Bible, and a Christian worldview is often a defining factor in what an individual believes. Timothy Keller’s book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism attempts to answer these questions thoroughly and completely in order to convince the skeptic and affirm the believer.

The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the New Testament gospels, but it contains many important and prominent themes. These themes include: titles used for Jesus, the messianic secret, Jesus' mighty actions, healing of the sick, and the human actions of Jesus.

In Evangelism, Salvation and Social Justice, Sider introduces different theologians’ (Graham, Scott, etc.) opinions on the definition of evangelism, the role it plays in the church mission, and the relationship between evangelism and the social actions. By reviewing current five viewpoints of evangelism, salvation, and social actions, Sider puts forward a sixth viewpoint by re-exploring the biblical foundations about the concepts of the Gospel, salvation, redemption, and the principalities and powers. Sider argues that evangelism and social actions are interrelated, but they are two different and equal important aspects of the mission of the church. In his idea, the Gospel is related to justification, regeneration, Jesus’s Lordship, and the church (Sider, p.256).

       The word Gospel overstated. Indeed, it is the culminating concept of the entire Bible. So as the biblical writers proclaimed this good news to all, so we, in turn, proclaim it to others. One of the most famous of all passages which is located in John says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (New International Version, John. 3.16).”  This is a passage that a Christian might refer you to if you were to ask them what is the gospel. The good news of the gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect obedience to God, not for His own well-being

After Keller introduces and explains God’s original plan for work and what work has become after the fall of man, Keller comes to the final part of his writing: the Gospel and work. Keller explains that man always attaches a story line to their life. He relates the idea of a story to narratives, which becomes “a fundamental story about what human life in the world should be like, what has knocked it off balance, and what can be done to make it right.” (154) This narrative is important because everyone lives out a narrative. In addition, everyone acknowledges that there is something wrong within us and among us. Thus our worldview attempts to address these problems and identify what is the cause and what is the solution. Keller explains the

One day a dog ran in a dump and found a dead raccoon. He ran back home, hid it in his bed. Three days pass and the whole house smells like dead animals. Jeff let the dog out to go to the bathroom. The dog ran down the road and found that dump. He found a cat. He ran it down the interstate. They were jumping on the hoods of the cars. The dog finely gave up and went

In this book, I strongly agreed with the gospel being Jesus. McKnight says it perfectly that the “gospel is the secret of life, and the gospel is the way to the truth and the life” (McKnight, 2011). “We must know this gospel in order to build a gospel culture” (McKnight, 2011). The gospel will save us if we firmly believe it and faithfully follow it. What excited me

The Gospel of Mark is full of examples of faith that can be interpreted in many ways. The gospel of Mark shows what Jesus does for all those with faith. The following passages are evidence of what teaches us the Gospel of Mark,Mark 10:47-52, Mark 11:20-25, and Mark 16:14-17.

The essential problem Wright identifies in the introduction can be documented most clearly in six ordinary, but unsatisfactory responses often provided by the church to the query "What are the Gospels all about?, ” which are: 1) teaching people how to go to Heaven, 2) recording Jesus's exclusive ethical teaching, 3) depicting Jesus as a moral prototype for the people, 4) exhibiting Jesus as the perfect sacrifice, 5) telling stories with which humans can recognize and then find direction, and 6) signifying Jesus's spirituality. While each of these answers contains a portion of truth, Wright contends they all fail to hold the heart of the Gospel accounts. According to Wright, “the gospels tell of Jesus who embodied the living God of Israel and whose cross and resurrection really did unveil and initiate the Kingdom of God.” Wright then claims that the kingdom is apart of a greater eschatological theology, which is concerned with what is believed to be the final events of history, or the definitive destiny of humanity.

The new testament contains four (4) accounts of the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection as presented by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The 3 accounts are similar, while Johns bible presents Jesus in a unique way. These differences exist because Matthew and Luke got their information from Mark and John got his information from another source, maybe John did not have access to the other gospels or he chose not to use them. No one really knows the source of John’s gospel and we don’t know for sure who wrote the gospels. Scholars refer to the authors as Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, this may not even be their real names. The Gospel were not first hand accounts except for Mark. John did not seem to have known the existence of the other

The stages of the development of the gospels consisted of 3 stages. 1st being Jesus Life (period), 2nd stage being period of oral tradition and the third being the period of the evangelists.

What is Gospel? The people usually think the Fourth Gospel that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and it is all about Jesus. In the ancient Hellenistic time, the Gospels were regarded as biographies of Jesus (Boring, 508). If Jonathan Z. Smith represents “a son of God” as Jesus in his definition, I do not think the Gospel is only the story of Jesus, a son of God. While Jesus appears in every scene of Gospel, Jesus himself is not the main object of the Gospel. But I acknowledge that Jesus is the important character in the Gospel because God reveals himself through Jesus, and Jesus reveals himself as the Christ (Boring, 509). Boring said that the structure of the Gospel is not talking about Jesus’s life, but it is “who Jesus is in the plan of God” (Boring, 510). Dr. Smith’s definition seems like only focusing on Jesus as a son of God. However, I would like to emphasize God and God’s work through Jesus the Christ in the Gospel rather than Jesus as a son of God. If only focusing on Jesus, we can easily miss God’s works in the believer’s life and the community in the Gospel. And also, it is easy to think Jesus as only human being. I believe that Jesus, a son of God, cannot be explained

Throughout history we, as Christians, have lived out the repercussions of the fall. However, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, the key to reuniting with God was found. As Brennan Manning said, “If we search for one word to describe the mission and ministry of Jesus Christ, reconciliation would not be a bad choice. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them” (2 Corinthians 5:19).” This is the power of the gospel. By definition, the word “Gospel” means ‘good news’. Specifically, it is an opportunity to see God move through redemption, reconciliation, and salvation.