EMA 2011 Afternoon Session 02

This afternoon Adrian Reynolds interviewed Tim Keller for a while, which was interesting. I was struck by a number of things especially the emphasis on prayer.

Later, he carried on with his message on the need to be flexible in our dealings with different cultures while we are careful not to compromise the gospel itself. He took us first to Paul's speeches in Acts and outlined an unchanging content in

• The epistemological challenge (God)
• The sin challenge (Law and sin)
• The Jesus element
• Repentance and faith

He also drew on a Themelios article by Don Carson that can be found here. In this article he notes different scriptural motives for repentance and faith.

The final section of Keller's paper spoke of the need with cultures we want to reach to

• Enter
• Challenge
• Appeal/Console

By way of illustration he spoke of drilling and blasting being necessary in order to break through and of "A beliefs" and defeaters which Keller fans are no doubt familiar with. Plenty of things to learn here even if one doesn't take it all on board.