Tag: <span>02 beginner</span>

Why should theological study be a primary occupation for the Christian minister? (Webster, 2014)

In the gospel we find God’s loving instruction of guilty and sad creatures, whose treason against their creator is such that they have lost their way, and no longer know who or where they are or how to reach out to happiness. To these creatures – to us – the gospel holds out illumination and healing.

‘Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen’ (Webster, 2016)

The Christian confession of the resurrection encompasses two great matters: first, that Jesus Christ is the living one who died and is alive for evermore (Rev. 1.18), and, second, that together with him ‘God made us alive’ (Eph. 2.5). These two elements of the confession – its Christology and its soteriology – belong together, but stand in a strict and irreversible sequence.