Forging Ploughshares

Paul and Frank begin a conversation about house church.

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Paul concludes the study of Galatians.

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Paul demonstrates how the Holy Spirit overcomes the various socio-cultural and personal barriers so as to bring about unity.

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Ryan, in an unusual move, combines Pauline theology and the Book of Revelation with the peaceable living of agrarianism.

He talks about Wendell Berry’s agrarian pacifism, it’s a sort of rooted peaceableness. In my mind, I can’t imagine anything more peaceable than rooting oneself on a piece of land, committing oneself and one’s family to live in tune with that place and embodying the gospel by your peaceable existence on that land and in that community. I can’t imagine anything less violent than saying, “I’m going to reject what the world says I should be doing in terms of pursuing all of these economic goals,” rejecting that whole system and instead saying, “I’m going to root myself here and I’m going to take my life from this land.” That’s how I connect the way I think about creation care and agrarianism and how, at its core, is concerned with a kind of patient peaceableness that I think the gospel calls us to. So, we can talk about peace all day, but at the end of the day if we’re still getting our food from an industrial system that destroys God’s creation and depends upon oil, then we’re still benefiting from other people committing acts of violence.

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Paul compares the two economies presented in Galatians.

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Paul interviews Michael Householder, who practices a very different “church growth” system than what we normally see in consumer-oriented mega-churches.

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That we have entered into this millennial kingdom in and through Christ—what should mean for us in our immediate experience is that we’re no longer desperate to save ourselves. If we understand the human enterprise—the kingdoms of this world—what are they all about? Well, they’re in the business of securing themselves. They’rein the business of saving themselves. And that is the desperate need that consumes peoples’ lives. It’s the driving force. And, so, when we talk about the millennial kingdom, it is a resolution that is enacted in baptism through the church now,so that we begin to live resurrection lives in the present.

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Paul and Frank continue their discussion on the meaning,  origin and practice of communion. This episode covers the purpose of the Levitical sacrifices and the significance blood, more readings from the Didache, whether communion and the assembly should be open or closed, and a little more detail on the way thanksgiving offerings were practiced.

For Further Learning:

1. Didache
2. Getting Political
3. Rediscovering Communion – Part I

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Romans chapter 10: The end of the law, or the purpose of the law is shown to be the way it points to covenental relationship which resolves the problem of shame and death which is the problem of sin.

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In this lecture, Paul discusses the root negative emotion, shame, and how Christ addresses it.

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