Sacred Roots Workshop

Preface

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provides a comprehensive narrative of the workings of the triune God’s saving action in creation, Israel, and the Church. This Story calls us to adventure, to embrace the Story of God as our story and call to Kingdom discipleship.

Session 2 Going Back to the Future: Why We Need to Retrieve the Great Tradition Today

This session covers the growing crisis in evangelicalism and its need to articulate the Christian Gospel aright, which itself is a narrative of God’s saving acts in Christ. It provides general facts about the Great Tradition, and briefly outlines its critical dimensions, detailing the benefits in such a retrieval today.

Session 3 The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots

This session shows how the Great Tradition of the ancient-undivided Church displayed its life in the world through the Bible’s main storyline. Using eight images adapted from the Church’s classic symbolism, we will outline God’s narration of his objective working in the world, and the Church’s subjective response to that work in theology, liturgy, spiritual formation and mission.

Session 4 The Difference That Difference Makes: Culture, Religion, and Diversity in Postmodern Society

This session, as a kind of segue to the workshop, details the kind of cultural milieu in which the Story of God will be displayed and demonstrated today. Briefly laying out the concept of culture, this session explores the implications of cultural difference in church life and in ministry today, and shows how a biblical theology of culture allows us to translate the Story cross-culturally in a multi-cultural and unchurched society.

Session 5 The Great Confession: Living a Common Confession, Creedal Theology, and Godly Tradition in the Church Today

This session briefly explores the centrality of apostolic tradition, and details how a rediscovery of the ancient rule of faith explained in the Vincentian canon and expressed through the ecumenical creeds of the Church can effectively summarize the Story’s salient points, and can serve as a ready guide for catechetical preparation, Christian education, and spiritual formation today.