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Al Hsu's article at Christianity Today - "A Multifacted Gospel: Why Evangelicals Shouldn't Be Threatened By New Tellings of the Good News" - which I read from at tonight's Meetup:
http://www.christiani...
Good stuff! Very much in the Spirit of what we always talk about- there's more to our faith than just our version of it....

Pax,

-D

Paul spoke of the story he was given as "grace [that was] given" him to preach" (Eph. 3:8ff). The gospel brims with "unsearchable riches of Christ," but he saw the eklesia as God's master plan for something that resembles a prism through which these riches must shine, discharging and exploding into the "manifold wisdom of God." He gave himself to the messy work of the plan.

The word "manifold," seems a prosaic English translation for the Greek, "polupoikilos." It's the word the Septuagint uses to describe Joseph's coat and through which the richly embroidered fabric of the Hebrew came to be known traditionally as "many colored."

Hsu and Marty apprehend the reductionist impulses that focus on a single fold, a single ray of light.

A line of a song that has stuck with me by Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine," says the jeweler knows "the use of ashes." The grace Paul was given and the grace given each of us is the jewelers delight and toil, grinding and polishing facets that expose the spectrum.