The Four-Chapter Gospel
Part 1 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Gen 1:1)
The Book of Genesis opens with the account of creation, the start of the most encompassing story [...]
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Part 2 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
If you are like me and have been in an evangelical church, you probably understand the gospel as:
God made you and wants to have a relationship with you. Your sin separates you from God, and there is nothing you can do [...]
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Part 3 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
As we said yesterday, today’s evangelical church has edited the Four-Chapter Gospel (creation, fall, redemption and restoration) down to two chapters (fall and redemption). The opening chapters of Genesis are now only used to argue creation vs. evolution and not [...]
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Part 4 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers the main characters Jake and Elwood said they were on a mission from God. They weren’t, but we are…
In our last post on The Four-Chapter Gospel, we [...]
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Part 5 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
Drawing our missional role from the metanarrative of Scripture as we discussed in our last post stands in stark contrast to the way most evangelical Christians use and understand the Bible today.
A number of years ago I was invited to [...]
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Part 6 in a series on The Four-Chapter Gospel
Let’s summarize our discussion of the Four-Chapter Gospel from these past several days:
For 1800 years the metanarrative of the Bible was taught in four chapters, creation, fall, redemption and restoration. In the last 200 years, the evangelical church in [...]
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