This sermon on Hell did not end the way I thought it would

I'm serious. Scot McKnight, author of The Jesus Creed, sketches the predominant views of Hell (eternal punishment) today and then preaches on the parable of the rich man in Hades (Luke 16:14-31) and comes to his own conclusion. He distinguishes between the NT Greek terms Hades and Gehenna.



Watch it from beginning to end.

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"I think we already see in the gospels a pattern: and that is Jesus calls people to follow him unequivocally. His followers follow him and they fail. He rebukes them. He forgives them. They get back up and they follow Jesus again.

That's a pattern of obedience, discipleship, with moments of failure and forgiveness." ~Scot McKnight

Resource: Scot McKnight Sermons

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Scot McKnight on Bonhoeffer on Church and State

His proposal at the end is a good start. However, he should speak for himself in his opening sentence: "We don’t think enough about the relationship of the church to the state; we assume what exists in our world is what is supposed to be." 

Theonomists and Reconstructionists have been on it for decades. McKnight, in 2012, recommended a response book to "Dominion theology."  

Video: Faith Forum 2012: What Does Jesus Want? (part 2) -- Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight, author of The King Jesus Gospel, expounds on the meaning of the term "gospel" back in 2012.

Video: Faith Forum 2012: What Does Jesus Want? (part 1) -- Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight, author of The King Jesus Gospel, expounds on the meaning of the term "gospel" back in 2012.

Video: Faith Forum 2012: Getting the Gospel Right -- Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight, author of The King Jesus Gospel, expounds on the meaning of the term "gospel" back in 2012.

Video: Faith Forum 2012: Q & A Forum -- Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight, author of The King Jesus Gospel, expounds on the meaning of the term "gospel" back in 2012.

Video: The Radical Message of Jesus - Scot McKnight, PhD

Scot McKnight is the author of The King Jesus Gospel.

The Challenge of a Changing World

"God's Word does not change.  God's world, however, changes in every generation. These changes, in addition to new findings by scholars and a new variety of challenges to the gospel message, call for the church in each generation to interpret and apply God's Word for God's people." The Editors of The New American Commentary: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

Similar things are said in N.T. Wright's foreword to "The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited." 

Wright says that "[p]art of the genius of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh. Precisely because (so Christians believe) God wants every single Christian to grow up in understanding as well as trust, the Christian faith has never been something that one generation can sort out in such a way as to leave their successors with no work to do."

He continued: "Like a young man inheriting a vast fortune, such a legacy could just make you lazy. All you'd have to do would be to look up things in the book, or to remember how it was when your favourite pastor used to do it, and that would be it. No room for character. No room for full human maturity--never mind full Christian maturity."