On Sunday, December 8th, we will be closing our series on "Understanding the Grand Narrative" with a luncheon featuring Dr. Daniel Kirk. Dr. Kirk lives in San Francisco and is a New Testament professor at Fuller Seminary, a fan of narrative theology, and a great blogger. "Telling the story of the story-bound God" is the tagline for his website, and Kirk is a fantastic companion with whom to engage the story. And the story of the Bible is always pointing us toward the cross, the place where God in the flesh died to take on the sins of the world. In a post from last year, Dr. Kirk wrote:
The Bible is the story of God at work in the world.
The Bible is the story of people responding to (or ignoring) God at work in the world.
The Bible is particular people wrestling with the particular ways God is at work at their moment in time, telling their part of the story, writing their part of the human response, as people who want to lead their communities into a certain way of response.
The Bible is dynamic in this sense. Not merely breathed by God, but written by prophets who were eagerly searching out the things about which they were writing.
Dr. Kirk's work in the field of Biblical Studies has led to the publishing of two books: Unlocking Romans and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? The latter draws on Kirk's expertise in the area of Pauline theology and seeks to integrate Paul's messages in the New Testament epistles with the portrait of Jesus given in the gospels. Understanding how Paul and Jesus actually complement each other is not easy, but Kirk is an apt guide through the often seemingly contradictory words of the New Testament.
Join us for this luncheon on Sunday, December 8th at 12:30 PM at the Sutter site.