2: Good News
What is the Good News about Jesus, really?
Sometimes we use transactional language to describe atonement, what Jesus accomplished on the cross. But the Good News is much more like a wedding than a business transaction. It's not two-dimensional "barcode faith"—getting scanned the right way so you go to the right destination. It's an announcement about what God is doing in the world, and how anyone can enter into it and experience it.
Scripture uses a variety of images to describe the Good News. Jesus' dominant metaphor is the kingdom. Paul writes that Jesus' death and resurrection is "of first…
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