Theology Incarnate
You can find my notes from last weekend's study here and an audio file of the message here, or you can access both thru the right hand menu.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on my using the phrase 'Theology Incarnate'. The word theology literally translates 'God-words', and is used referring to the study of God. I came up with the phrase (not sure if others have used it as well) in conversations with many of you over the last few months concerning ministry of the church into the 21st century / post-modern culture. My thinking is that the church has been teaching theology, learning theology, studying theology, arguing theology and etc., when what I believe the world needs more than any and all of those is to have theology with skin - God-words lived out before them - or, in a term, theology incarnate.
Help me move monologue to dialogue. Give the message a listen or the notes a read and share your thoughts. How have the studies thus far in Revelation 2 struck you? Ephesus? Smyrna? Pergamum?
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on my using the phrase 'Theology Incarnate'. The word theology literally translates 'God-words', and is used referring to the study of God. I came up with the phrase (not sure if others have used it as well) in conversations with many of you over the last few months concerning ministry of the church into the 21st century / post-modern culture. My thinking is that the church has been teaching theology, learning theology, studying theology, arguing theology and etc., when what I believe the world needs more than any and all of those is to have theology with skin - God-words lived out before them - or, in a term, theology incarnate.
Help me move monologue to dialogue. Give the message a listen or the notes a read and share your thoughts. How have the studies thus far in Revelation 2 struck you? Ephesus? Smyrna? Pergamum?
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1 Comments:
Nice Sermon Darin, very convicting.
Funny, as a lifelong "Methodist" I've never, ever heard Revelation preached from the pulpit! I had to look to external resources to understand Revelation at all, and I love the way you apply the messages from Christ to the churches to us in this day and age. I've seen it done before, but not this seemlessly.
Theology Incarnate. Interesting term, and I would say entirely Biblical. The irony is that you see theology preached (and preach it weekly), while in the UMC I rarely see theology preached at all. The typical sermon in my church is 20 minutes of some gripping story, then a couple minutes of application to our lives today - and if he can fit a line of Scripture in somewhere that's a bonus! Of course, the pot-lucks are great...
But I agree with you entirely. I think Paul was "theology incarnate." He taught theology over and over to his followers in person and by letter, and also acted as Christ's hands and feet while mentoring others to do so as well. Think of the miles he traveled and rejection he constantly faced. Without theology incarnate during that time period, I'm not sure what the Holy Spirit would have done to grow the early church.
That's why your message is convicting. Are we concerned about theology for the sake of "winning the argument" or "getting it right," or are we actually using it to proactively share the Gospel in a meaningful way?
By Anonymous, at 9/28/2006 11:35 AM
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