Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission (Biblia.com)

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The first detailed exegetical treatment of Paul’s letters from the emerging discipline of missional hermeneutics, Michael Gorman’s Becoming the Gospel argues that Paul’s letters invite Christian communities both then and now to not merely believe the gospel but to become the gospel and, in doing so, to participate in the life and mission of God. Showing that Pauline churches were active public...

To read Paul missionally is to read him as a participant in, advocate for, and interpreter of the missio Dei, the mission of God first revealed in the story and Scriptures of Israel and now manifested in its fullness in the reality and story of Christ. It is to read his letters as witnesses to that missio Dei and as invitations to be part of it, indeed to participate in the very life of God. Once the church starts to read Paul that way more deliberately and more consistently, it will be thrilling,

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