We continue our deeper dive into who Jesus is and how his reality impacts us and our faith.

Its been a while since we last recorded a podcast. We have finished up our conversation with Pete Enns’ book How the Bible Actually Works and we are patiently waiting for the opportunity to interview Pete Enns. (Yes, its going to happen but not until late November.)

Moving forward, we are going to switch our attention to the question, What’s Real about Jesus? At Seeds our mission is to “Make Jesus Real” and we want to explore some of the dimensions of that reality. This week Ted and Darlene explore the implications of Jesus the Revolutionary.

Enjoy!

“Christians today, living when and where we are, have no choice but to be intentional in following the Bible and the entire history of Christianity in accepting the sacred responsibility to ask how we can talk about God in a way that is both connected to the tradition and meaningful for today. It is most fair to ask whether at some point we will cross the line from adapting the tradition to obscuring it. But the fact that this concern is valid does not mean we can avoid the wisdom task altogether. The life of faith isn’t that easy.”

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (pp. 275-276).

Hooray or boo hoo!  We’ve reached the final chapter.  Join us as we wrap up our conversation with Pete Enns and his book How the Bible Actually Works.  Enjoy.

“As one of my seminary professors said, “Reading the New Testament is like reading someone else’s mail.” That might be the most valuable thing I ever learned in seminary. And now I pass it on to you, at a far lower cost.”

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 254)

On today’s episode we finally get to figuring out all of the answers to all of our biblical questions…or something like that.

We are back continuing our deep dive into the book How The Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns.  Dive in.

“The early followers of Jesus, though they too engaged the tradition creatively, did so for a very different reason—not because of God’s apparent abandonment, but because of God’s unexpected, counterintuitive presence, namely, in Jesus of Nazareth, a crucified Messiah.”

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works

This week we are back to Chapters 10 and 11 in the book, How the Bible Actually Works. Enjoy!

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This week we break from the normal conversation with Pete Enns’s book, How the Bible Actually Works to sit down and chat with Brad Jersak.

Brad is Dean of the Theology and Culture program at St. Stephens University in New Brunswick and is well known for his books on listening prayer, and theological thinking from a Christlike perspective.  Pick up Brad’s latest book,  a novel called The Pastor: A Crisis, which he co-wrote with Paul Young (the author of The Shack)

Brad is the process of writing a book on the Bible called A More Christlike Word (release TBA) and much of our conversation revolves on defining his relationship to the Bible and how we can engage scripture in a more healthy and faithful way.  Enjoy.

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“And so we are back to our paradox: to maintain any tradition, you need to hold on to some aspects of the past while at the same time thinking creatively about how the past and the present can meet—reimagining the faith, as I’ve been putting it. The perennial wisdom question is, “What remains and what gets transformed?” At what point have we left the tradition by adjusting it to the present, and at what point have we killed the tradition by refusing to change at all?”

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 165).

We are back from a short break and your hosts Ted and Darlene Enns=Dyck continue the conversation on our faith connects to our relationship with the Bible.  Enjoy.

We respect these sacred texts best not by taking them as the final word on what God is like, but by accepting them as recording for us genuine experiences of God for the Israelites and trying to understand why they would describe God as they do. God met the ancient Israelites on their terms, in their time and place, stepping into their world.

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 144).

This week we are recording outside and continuing our conversation with the book How the Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns.

And so, as a person of faith who studies the Bible for a living and who also lives (as I mentioned) in the here and now, I have come to terms somewhat with this dilemma of matching the God of the Bible with my faith: The God I read about in the Bible is not what God is like—in some timeless abstraction, and that’s that—but how God was imagined and then reimagined by ancient people of faith living in real times and places.

Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (pp. 124-125).

We are back from a little break to bring you another episode of The Define the Relationship Podcast.  Today we delve into chapter 6 of Pete Enns’ book How the Bible Actually Works.  Today’s chapter explores how we are to get a picture of What God is like?