TH131 Orals Reviewer
Thesis Statement #1
We are all called both personally, as individual believers, and ecclesially, as members of the Church, to share Jesus Christ by word and witness, through active commitment (Radcliffe).
*We are called on by Jesus to spread his word through active commitment
- God created man to name his Creation. We were created in order to serve the Lord, but at the same time, we are also made in his image
- God gave humans names first (Adam, Eve) and then tasked them to help Him name his Creation, because naming is a manifestation that God wants you to participate in developing the Creation with Him.
It is an active, self-determined response to a general call rather than a passive acceptance of a specific call, which puts us in a dynamic relationship between the ekklesia and the kalloumenoi (L. O’Connell).
*God created us individually, but his call to us was universal, made to the general public. It is in our response in which the call becomes specific
- We answer in our own unique way, which makes the call specific.
- Specific, meaning in our own way, but not special, because the call is universal
- Our response is not pre-determined; it is up to us to decide how we should respond to the call
*In the Old Testament, it is always mentioned that men and women are called to be partners in co-creating the world with God
-Kalloumenoi = those who are called, ekklesia = community of those who are called
The call is universal, the response is specific; this questions any conception that there is a privilege response for each express different basic ways of living out Christ’s Gospel, which proclaims that true life is found in loving service of one another (O’Neil & Black, T. O’Connell).
*Call of God has been for man to live our lives fully, and in that sense, there is no pre-determined plan for us
- God calls you in the specificity of our own lives, meaning God will find a way to communicate with us while on our own paths.
*Call can be to love, as can be
We are all called both personally, as individual believers, and ecclesially, as members of the Church, to share Jesus Christ by word and witness, through active commitment (Radcliffe).
*We are called on by Jesus to spread his word through active commitment
- God created man to name his Creation. We were created in order to serve the Lord, but at the same time, we are also made in his image
- God gave humans names first (Adam, Eve) and then tasked them to help Him name his Creation, because naming is a manifestation that God wants you to participate in developing the Creation with Him.
It is an active, self-determined response to a general call rather than a passive acceptance of a specific call, which puts us in a dynamic relationship between the ekklesia and the kalloumenoi (L. O’Connell).
*God created us individually, but his call to us was universal, made to the general public. It is in our response in which the call becomes specific
- We answer in our own unique way, which makes the call specific.
- Specific, meaning in our own way, but not special, because the call is universal
- Our response is not pre-determined; it is up to us to decide how we should respond to the call
*In the Old Testament, it is always mentioned that men and women are called to be partners in co-creating the world with God
-Kalloumenoi = those who are called, ekklesia = community of those who are called
The call is universal, the response is specific; this questions any conception that there is a privilege response for each express different basic ways of living out Christ’s Gospel, which proclaims that true life is found in loving service of one another (O’Neil & Black, T. O’Connell).
*Call of God has been for man to live our lives fully, and in that sense, there is no pre-determined plan for us
- God calls you in the specificity of our own lives, meaning God will find a way to communicate with us while on our own paths.
*Call can be to love, as can be