Confrontation of Cultures and Worldviews

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Confrontation of Cultures and Worldviews
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Important Words in Different Contexts

• Assembly
• Kingdom
• Lord
• Good news
• Presence/coming
• Savior/salvation

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The Scandal of the Cross Caesar and Christ
confront one another

• Supremely honored emperor on the throne
• Proclaims good news to the kingdom

• Humiliated craftsman executed on a cross
• Proclaims good news for all

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Two Different Worldviews

• Lord
• Power
• Wisdom

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The Cross

• Shame
• Weakness
• Failure
• Death

• Honor
• Strength/ power of God
• Triumph over sin, selfishness
• True Life

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• Any attempt to make the gospel palatable by
  bringing it in line with the tasks of those to
  whom it is preached distorts it, because in this
  case the criterion is made the expectations of
  fallen humanity.
• Jerome Murphy-OConnor, I Corinthians
  (Wilmington Glazier, 1979), p. 14
• This is how the Gospel loses its power!