Biblical theology is a way of reading the Bible, it is hermeneutic. Does he suppose that the many authors and books of Scripture come from a single divine author and tell a single story? About Christ.
Does it seem a bit academic? In fact, isn’t it?
- Discipline of biblical theology is essential to protect and guide your church.
- Protect the church from false stories and bad manners.
- Guide the church to better preaching.
- Best practices.
- And best manners.
Biblical theology as protector of the Church
Think, for example, of theological liberalism. It tells the story of salvation as God’s work to overcome, say, economic injustice or a selfish political conscience. Such redemptive plots may not be entirely false, but they remind me how one of my daughters usually recounts a fight with her sister. he tells truths, but also omits details, redistributes accents, creates subtle interpretive connections. The same goes for the accounts of liberalism in relation to the biblical plot of the gospel.
The same is true of Roman Catholicism, in which priests and the sacraments play a mediation role that gives off a strong smell of ancient alliance.
Or with the gospel of prosperity, which also matters elements of the old covenant to the new covenant, only with regard to blessings.
Other groups do not bring the redeeming past to the present, but they bring the future redeemer to the present. There were perfectionist anabaptists who thought they could bring paradise to earth in the blink of an eye. Progressive liberals tried the same thing a century ago. Today it is the culture-changing drug addicts who present subtle reinterpretations of the biblical scene.
The list is long, whether we think of sects, Christians, such as Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses or movements within the Church, such as the social gospel, liberation theology, American mesianism, or certain forms of fundamentalist separatism, some better, some worse.
The fact is that unbalanced (or false) gospels and unbalanced (or false) churches are based on texts of evidence, outside the context of their history or completely distorted plots, or mistakenly connect the main covenants of the Bible, or they have also done so. much continuity or too much discontinuity, or fail to distinguish types of antitypes, or have a schatology that is poorly achieved or too accomplished. Perhaps now they promise heaven on earth; maybe they will make today’s spiritual life stand out.
In any case, evil or unbalanced biblical theologies proclaim an evil or unbalanced gospel, and such gospels build evil or unbalanced churches.
However, good biblical theology protects the gospel and the Church. “Strong biblical theology tends to protect Christians from the most notorious reductionism,” says DA Carson.
This means that it is the duty of the pastor (i) to know good biblical theology and (ii) to have some idea of the evil biblical theologies that affect the march of the members of his church. people have been weeded from a gospel version of prosperity. Can you explain to them why this milk is rotten?
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This article is part of the 9Marks Journal
Translation: Vin-cius Silva Pimentel. Review: Vin-cius Musselman Pimentel. © 2014 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinistryFiel. com. br. Original: How biblical theology protects and guides churches.