Re: [Bulk] RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: Wright lecture

[Judy Taylor]

Fulcrum or "support about which a lever turns?"  Like other theologians of your paradigm Lance - Wright avoids the distasteful (and in his words stays with the beautiful, creative, and aesthetic) which negates almost all of the "truth once delivered to the saints" - Wright opines: "One of the central Spirit-texts in the New Testament is Jesus' promise in John 20.21: 'Receive the Holy Spirit; As the Father sent me, so I send you.' The Spirit is given so that we will be for the world what Jesus was for Israel. Our task is not to repeat what Jesus did, but to implement his achievement." WhereasJesus Himself said "The world cannot receive the Holy Spirit because it neither sees Him nor knows Him" (Jn 14:17) and when praying to the Father He said "They (believers) are not of the world, even as I am not of the world" (Jn 17:16). Yet these theologians of choice are all trying to save the whole world and keep the Creation from global warming and toxic waste. As for "repeating what Jesus did" He said the works that he did bore witness that the Father had sent Him (Jn 5:36) and that ppl should believe Him for the works' sake (Jn 14:11); He then went on to say that believers would not only repeat what He did (ie: do the same works as He) but greater (Jn 14:12). Jesus did not speak of the arts or talk about the "beautiful, creative, and aesthetic" in fact according to the prophet Isaiah he wasn't all that good looking himself.  His mission was to bind up the broken hearted and "set captives free" - So long as we are in this world this is our inheritance in Him; He said that when He cast out Satan by the finger of God we would know that the Kingdom of God was upon us.  Wright is all about being good stewards of the creation like he is back in Eden. He does not speak about cleansing temples or setting captives free and neither did Watts which I find sad because there is a time and a place for everything and no need to get in a hurry; God has made provision for the creation to be cleansed by fire.  However, before this happens - when He comes again Jesus is going to separate sheep from goats and those not wearing the right garment who have not been plucked from the fire - will be excluded from the wedding.    jt     From: Jonathan Hughes To: Lance Muir Sent: May 06, 2005 07:42 Subject: Wright lecture   fulcrum conference islington Inciting Insight: The Holy Spirit friday 29 april 2005 The Holy Spirit in the Church Tom Wright Bishop of Durham   I am delighted to be speaking at this first Fulcrum conference, and am very grateful to Francis Bridger and his colleagues for inviting me, and to Graham Kings and the staff here at St Mary's for their hospitality. It is twenty-five years since I last spoke here, at one of the old Islington Conferences, and I trust I shall look back on this day with as much pleasure as I now look back on that one.