The Church and Her Mission

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An epic poem based on The Drama of Scripture: 
Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story

By Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen

Prologue: The Bible as Grand Story

Act 1: God Establishes His Kingdom:Creation

Act 2: Rebellion in the Kingdom:Fall

Act 3: The King Chooses Israel: Redemption Initiated

Interlude: A Kingdom Story Waiting for an Ending: 

The Intertestamental Period 

Act 4: The Coming of the King: Redemption Accomplished

Act 5: Spreading the News of the King:

The Mission of the Church

Act 6: The Return of the King: Redemption Completed

Act 5: Spreading the News of the King:

Pentecostal Kingdom Come:

The Church and Her Mission

We will go

Tell it on the mountain

Until all will know

Dance and sing and put on a show

Until all the world comes aglow

And all has the chance to be grafted in

Until all will come to know

The King has come and freedom is shown

To know Him and to make Him known

And God’s Kingdom has come

On earth as it is in heaven

And the yeast is worked into the leaven

Community rises up—everything is held in common

Brother is brother’s keeper

Love escalates and rises ever steeper

Heaven has come down and blessing abounds

Tongues of fire emerges and descends

Fire flames, rearranges, changes and begins

His presence and power from nation to nation

Witnesses consulted, witnesses made

Flame so bright there is no shade

This is how act five closes, with flames of fire and community

Power displayed so brightly the whole world would see

© September 4, 2012, Robbie Pruitt

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