The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission Benjamin L Merkle Christ’s diagnosis of the heart

Christ’s diagnosis of the heart of the Pharisee was that ‘they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God (John 12:43)

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this isn’t to say that he full outright rejects natural theology but the author shows that if natural theology is argued from a Thomas Aquinas perspective then it's ultimately a failure

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ministers from different denominational backgrounds

The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission Benjamin L Merkle Christ’s diagnosis of the heartIn The Great Story and the Great Commission, Christopher Wright explains that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, "People read (and preach) the Bible in tiny bits and pieces, for its promises or rules or doctrines, and fail to take it . . . as the true story of the universe, past, present, and future, within the plan and purposes of God a story in which we are called to participate as