Sublime

general and universal. At the most general and most universal level you are usually identifying basic characteristics of God (God is love; God is holy and just; God is a God who saves and delivers, etc.). Right below this are usually general statements about the implications of these truths for God’s people in general. Then these general truths tak

This included responding specifically to Jesus’s commands (giving us baptism and the Lord’s Supper, for example), but it also included careful selection, reappropriation, and reorientation of formative cultural practices into the repertoire of kingdom-indexed liturgy.

By asking what a text reflects of God’s nature that prompts the work of Christ, an expositor can examine any narrative, genealogy, commandment, proverb, proposition, or parable to see what it reveals of God’s justice, holiness, goodness, lovingkindness, faithfulness, provision, or deliverance.

flexibility is found in their discussions of whether the Christian receives the Decalogue from the hands of Moses or from the hands of Christ.

He receives us only in Christ and for Christ’s sake.

Watch Out for Apostasy Heresy is false teaching brought into the church by wolves. Apostasy is the abandonment of the church by those led astray by heresy. Apostates may be true believers exercising a dangerous lapse of belief, or they may be false converts showing their real god. How we handle these cases will take great courage, great wisdom, and