The Jack Miller Archive

P: Being being the, a solitary note and what dad added to the forensic was the note of the welcoming of the welcoming father you know. That grace is for sinners. That's it's not, that this this is a celebration it's a party you know. #1:3:23.4#

M: Okay. #1:3:23.4#

P: That that we're at so all those themes work all of those themes work together in dad. The kind of community that gets created. The kind of people you welcome to the party. The and he didn't articulate it systematically he just kind of experienced it. And New Life was kind of the hot house of that so community but I'm actually writing a course on this now. But but that that the kind of so this dad never articulated it this way. This would be a sort of a trying to systematize what dad was doing.

But the call for grace was a call to anyone so therefore that that so that anyone came in , the sinners the messed up people, that shaped the very character of you community.

So you celebrated the very, the diversity was shaped by the character of the call of the gospel. So So Romans then comes alive when you realize that this is not just, it's not merely, I don't, dad never or nor would I criticize the forensic or depreciate it in the least bit.

But it made the forensic come alive as this is a welcome you know. You put prodigal son together with Romans 4.

He actually never did that in his teaching that I remember but that was functionally what he did in terms of he put the door on this castle of grace.

And he would tie it in with election he would tie it in is one doctrine he would tie in it thoughtfully was election because that was such a powerful.. #1:5:7.2#

P: With election because that was such a fundamental thing in his own life because he'd come to Christ through the doctrine of election.

And you might remember that story at the beginning of evangelism #1:5:21.1#

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