The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus
What's So Good About the Good News?
Chapter One
We Start with the Bible
In the new paradigm, what-is-preached shifts from the Bible or a passage of the Bible to Gospel and elements of the world of Gospel.
—Edward Farley,
Practicing Gospel
Some years ago I was on a night flight from Boston to London on a Saturday and was to preach in a London church on Sunday morning; in those days I was not intimidated by jet lag and looked forward to my engagement within a few hours of landing at Heathrow Airport. Then, midway over the Atlantic Ocean we encountered significant turbulence and were warned to keep our seatbelts fastened. Less concerned about the storm than about my sermon, I took out my notes and my Bible, and as I ... read full excerpt from Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, The ebook