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Incarnation & Inclusion, Abba & Lamb

De: Bradley Jersak, Jamie Winship, Donna Winship

Narrado por: Boyd Barrett

The question I address in this brief work is how Christ-followers might hold the tension of these two abiding and complementary truths:

1. Christ’s one-of-a-kind revelation.
2. Abba’s all-inclusive love.

I believe that Sacred Scripture and Christ himself affirm both these doctrines in a mind-blowing fullness. And yet those who enthusiastically profess either one of these two truths frequently do so at the expense of their complement. I am neither an exclusivist nor a pluralist. I believe in both the unique revelation of Christ and the inclusive love of Abba. In the following study, I’ll lay out biblical and experiential evidence for integrating and celebrating both these truths together, espousing the beautiful gospel of Christ’s unique revelation of Abba’s all-inclusive love.

By “Christ”, I am not referring to some abstract, ethereal, or disincarnate spirit. Following the Apostolic tradition, I mean specifically our “one Lord Jesus Christ”, the Lamb crucified and risen, whose singular revelation unveiled God as our eternal, cruciform and loving Abba. My primary lens for this synthesis is the prologue of John’s Gospel, where I see: God’s One and Only Lamb, crucified and risen - this word who speaks all into being, this Light who shines on all and in all, this Life who breathes life into all, this One unveils God as our all-merciful, all-embracing Abba. I, for one, believe that God’s banqueting table is wide open because of Christ.

The higher my Christology, the wider I see the reach of Abba’s love. The banquet metaphor is a way to think about both the uniqueness of Christ and the inclusivity of his Abba. The Master of the feast instructed his servants to invite, nay, to compel all to join in the feast. There’s a seat and setting reserved for every human in history. I hope this book magnifies both these glorious truths clearly.

©2019 Bradley Mark Jersak (P)2021 Bradley Mark Jersak

Excellent

Narration is FANTASTIC. Definitely an A-list voice over actor. Made this brilliant Brad Jersak book come alive, highly recommend.

Unique from other Jersak works because

It focus is largely on other religions and how inclusion reaches across those barriers. Quite good.

Message is antithetical to Scrioture’s message of love

Out of love, Christ through the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth, which makes exclusive claim about Jesus’s name, and about his exclusivity in salvation. I see what the book is trying to do but it doesn’t align with scripture.