N. T. Wright on Paul and the Transformative Gospel

In his lecture “Paul and the Faithfulness of God” delivered at the 2014 Fuller Forum, N. T. Wright, New Testament scholar and former bishop of Durham, explored Paul’s message of the Gospel as one of a holistically transformative and utterly new way of living, thinking, and worshiping.

[@sherrywebber4013]

WOO HOO!! What an AWEsome lecture!! I found NT Wright thru You Version & LOVE him when hes the guest speaker. Im home recovering from Covid & Pneumonia in Quarantine and got disconnected from my church service. SO glad as I neede to hear THIS today and have been immensely blessed by the message. Thank you sir. 💜🧡💙🥰❤🙏🙏

[@iselchyresseisrael-megahan7864]

God is infusing better into you.... Here is to your restored life.

[@joer5627]

This guy says stuff and makes sense of it that I’ve never considered. Thank you as it gives me something upon which to meditate

[@osyoso_ilonggo]

I think you can call him Tom.

[@Charity-vm4bt]

Yes, respectful.​@@osyoso_ilonggo

[@ryanwalker7764]

Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.” (ESV, Acts 9:15)

[@rhodemb]

That’s all I needed to hear today .

[@the3dadvantage]

I tend to think everyone got everything wrong with the exception of a few people including N. T.

[@gaenorturner2894]

Agree

[@nwakava9558]

Following

[@FriendOfChrist]

I'm an American. I prefer your title, "Virtue Reborn." I would have viewed the title, "After You Believe," the same way your friend did.

[@Charity-vm4bt]

Basically, Paul said if we are Born Again, ( receive the Holy Spirit) Christ abides in us. We have the spiritual authority to act in His Name. However, this is in the spiritual aspect of humans, not the soul. However, the soul and spirit are seamlessly connected. Only Jesus is the double-edged sword that can divide between soul and spirit. In essence, as we renew our mind, Christ operates through us and we go along with this activity. This is probably what was so revolutionary about Paul. The triune God dwells within humans, acts, speaks, thinks, and converses through humans. That is a higher level of consciousness and operates in realms that are not manifested in physicality. This is understood and taught by contemporary Rhema schools of thought founded and based in the U.S.A. The teachings of some of the post-charismatic teachers in the U.S. go into great depth to explain what the Bible means by Faith.

[@iselchyresseisrael-megahan7864]

Oct 12, 2020 is the day this was uploaded, or the day the sermon was given?

[@FULLERstudio]

Oct 12, 2020 was the day that this video was uploaded. This lecture was given in 2014.

[@maureenmuggleton5145]

I keep returning to this lecture as it has really challenged and still is challenging me to think !

[@jopra49]

When Wright mentions his book on Paul in these sessions, of which book TITLE is he speaking so I can purchase it?

[@MrLeadman12]

I believe it’s Paul and The Faithfulness of God

[@eyesinindia]

Pauline Theoly book ask for that in your book store NT

[@elliot7205]

How does NT wright reconcile pauls teachings and jesus teachings.

[@willielee5253]

@Min. 29:33, he must be right in his assessment of the Western Churches getting Paul's theology wrong, take January 6 as am example, where USA is imploding right before our eyes and they dare not confess. God bless us on our journey!!!

[@daneumurian5466]

Regarding Africa and China, please see Don Richardson's award-winning bestseller _Eternity in Their Hearts_, which talks about Shang-Di in ancient China, Hananim in ancient Korea, and other traditions in Africa, Burma, Central America, etc., that seem to point to the God of the Bible and specifically to the coming of Christ.

[@dr.k.t.varughese3151]

Why didnt Paul ask his deacons to give baptism?

[@Underground_seminary]

What NT Wright calls "doing theology" is how the early church and the schools of Israel's prophets understood the gift of, the process of, the practice of prophesy. 1 Chron 16's David understands how the people and the presence of the Most High God shrine will interact to declare ha Shem among the Nations. 1 Cor 14 assembly uses prophesy as evangelism. #Missiology #SojourneyingSpiritedSeers

[@ryanroubert2483]

I like that. I always have problems when anyone start to boldly teach of what has never contemplated in the "courtyards of God's habitation", like David, meditating in what he sees of God in His temple

[@sylviaspandow-tassi5644]

It's not Paul's theology or his teaching it is the work of Messiah and His teaching that is important.

[@celestedejesus1372]

@@Jonathan-si2nd Exactly!

[@chaddonal4331]

Sylvia, You have separated what God has joined. God used Paul uniquely to explain, enact, and propagate the work and ministry of Messiah Jesus. They are on the same team.

[@winstonshipman8734]

That is why Paul complains that "The Jews are persecuting me for their own beliefs ". He held these views before Jesus.

[@winstonshipman8734]

Paul was a Messianic Jew before Jesus . When he saw the risen Christ he then thought the Messianic Age had begun. That is why his ideas are so well developed. He held them for years before he ever saw Jesus.

[@dr.k.t.varughese3151]

Did Jesus give Paul authority to baptise?

[@kymdickman8910]

Yes… all of us have authority to baptise others. Jesus told His followers to baptise new believers Matthew 28:18-20 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 You’all go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”.

[@Urbanity_Kludge]

The community needed something new, something different. . . Paul invented a new discipline, a new task. . . A new theology. Ah, ok, but you just walked right past the new community called Church and it's central uniting point, the Eucharist.

[@Charity-vm4bt]

Urbanites. Yes. Agreed.