Leadership Into (Romans) Objective Meaning
These seminars provide background in the objective realities of the Christian
message. Unless these areas are covered, it will appear to be simply more modern, "religious" truth that is
just private or personal for its own followers. A very large base of knowledge about how the New Testament relates to
the revolts of Judaism in the 1st century is hardly known, while millions snap up fiction and fantasy about today's prophecy
events.
But it is more revolutionary than that. If Christians
think it is just private "truth," they are helping Islam, which is in denial of the actual realities of its founder
and its legal declarations, because, after all, Islam is 'just the Moslem's private "truth" too.'
The objective meaning of Romans (the marquee New Testament letter) stands
in contrast to today's narcissism, subjectivism (of course), existentialism, and even the 'market-driven' church and Christian
media.
There are also enormous differences with the prophecy-mania
of today with all of its irrational claims and geo-political consequences. Some of these claims are as bizarre and reckless
as Islam's. The sane and sober meaning of Christ's own prophetic declarations is found in relating Romans (along with
Luke-Acts) to the revolts of Judaism in the first century through established New Testament backgrounding.
Justification by the Christ event is the only message which can neutralize religion, clarify today's conflicts and
make for peace in today's fractured world.
The
seminars take up a selection for discussion and work toward renderings of phrases that preserve the truly reformative sense
and objectivity of the manifesto that is Romans.
