The Joyful Debt: shifting Christian paradigms

  1. Paradigms, Old and New

  2. Mission began with Christ
  3. Mission began after the Fall

  4. Mission is something we do
  5. We spit in the face of Christ if we do not reach out (we do not appreciate his sacrifice)

  6. God speaks to our heart
  7. God speaks to our mind

  8. Clergy is anointed
  9. Priesthood of all believers

  10. U.S. led church
  11. Worldwide church

  12. Sacred space
  13. Sacred earth

  14. Salvation for the saved
  15. God's grace bestowed on all

  16. Church as standard of morality
  17. Christ as standard of morality

  18. Ministry for the Church
  19. Ministry to the church

  20. Culturally responsible
  21. Socially responsible

  22. God as existent
  23. God as transcendent

  24. Financially liable
  25. Materialistically liable

  26. Penultimate: the saved soul
  27. Penultimate: a healed world

  28. The temple as central
  29. "When two gather in my name..."

  30. Love as measured
  31. Unmeasured love

  32. Forgiveness earned
  33. Forgiveness as grace modelled after God

  34. Church as club
  35. Church as community