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A response to Justin’s challenge <\/a>to describe the Gospel in your context.
\nFirst assignment; describe your context. Hmm. That’s an interesting one, because in my context we don’t think about context. \ud83d\ude42 I am one that finds himself caught between the modern and the post modern, leaning toward the safety of the modern way of thinking. Frankly, I don’t know that I understand post-modernism at all, I only know that modernism’s biggest failing is it’s assumption that it can figure it all out and that context doesn’t really matter. So here I sit, having been brought up in a modern, well defined world, looking around and seeing that things don’t always fit in a nice neat package, but not feeling quite equipped to deal with that.
\nI think that modernism’s way of looking at things, defining problems and seeking concrete solutions has much to say for itself, just not as much as it claims. But neither does post-modernism either.
\nBut this is supposed to be about the gospel, not a comparison of world views. The gospel to me is good news that is defined as much by the bad news. The bad news is that I have no idea what I’m doing here, how to live, how to treat people, how to be Right. Not just act or seem right or do right but be<\/i> right. I fall short, way, way short. I don’t want to but I can’t help it. I fail my wife, my kids, my family, my job, my neighbor, my God. I try, and try hard but I fail. I’ve learned many lessons on how not to fail, but they do not produce less failures. No, they reveal deeper chasms in my character, deeper failings, more things to work on.
\nI am not what God wants me to be, by any Biblical measure, likely any<\/i> measure. Bad news indeed.
\nThe good news is that God, in his infinite and amazing love has come to my rescue. He’s sent me a scapegoat, someone to take my burdens, my problems, my failings as His own.<\/i> Jesus takes my sin, takes the punishment, takes the blame. “Put it on me.”, He says, “Don’t worry about it.” My failings are no longer fatal, they no longer need to drag me to me knees in disgust. Jesus takes them away and I am free. Free of the burden of guilt and free to go at it again. What a relief to be able to shake off this guilt and focus only on becoming my best, something I could never so before because my failures stayed with me, distracting me and preventing me from moving on. I was ever chasing the unattainable dream of perfection, and suddenly it’s been handed to me, undeservingly. Now I am seen as perfect, though I’m not. What can possibly keep me down? What can keep me from greatness?
\nNow that’s<\/i> good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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