Musings of an Old Missionary

Always writing with my grandchildren in mind, I wanted to capture the process and growth over a lifetime with some of the issues I consider most important.

Essay One: Two Stories of Human Origin

Science First
Genesis
Following the Toledots
God’s Purpose—Human Response

Essay Two: Jesus and an Entrepreneurial Kingdom

God Revealed
New Testament Toledot
Learning to do the same thing new ways
The Holy Spirit as Agent of the Entrepreneurial Kingdom
Entrepreneurial Practitioners.

Essay Three: Kingdom Elements for Followers of Jesus

Framework Assumptions
Institutions
Integrative Framework

Essay Four: A Tradition Hard to Maintain

Jesus restates the Varietal Faith
Paul establishes the Varietal Faith among the Gentiles

Essay Five: Filling Full our Cultural Promise

Jesus restates the Varietal Faith
Paul establishes the Varietal Faith among the Gentiles

Essay Six: Following Jesus, Negotiating Culture

The Epic documents the good, the bad, the ugly
Challenges for living an Entrepreneurial Kingdom:
Failure:
- We have an unwillingness to love and refrain from judging other followers of Jesus who utilize alternative informal frames to understand and to live the Scriptures
- We under count the costs that living in a late modern, communication driven society extracts from its members
- We confuse the superior claim the Kingdom of Jesus places on us with those of competing claims
- We neglect our duties to those without voices who live within the sphere of our influence
- We confuse the importance of the products our faith and living produce with the process of living that faith