Relational Theology Day 2024 - A Better Story

We all know the Gospel is good news but how do we tell a better story in communicating it?

Relational Theology is an exploration of the rich orthodoxy that exists between the polar extremes of Legalism and Liberalism, telling a better story than that which the church has often resorted to.  

As Tom Wright has pointed out, “the story of Scripture” all too often has been reduced to:

1. God made the world; 
2. humans sinned;  
3. God sent Jesus;
4. that’s OK then.” [1]

Accordingly, our “popular version” of John 3:16 has ended up sounding more like: “God so hated the world, that he killed his only son”. [2]

We so desperately need a better story! We need a story that is faithful to the biblical narrative and established Christian testimony – one that puts love back at the heart of the story and is truly good news for the whole earth – for Jew, Greek, slave, free, male and female (Galatians 3:28). We need a stronger gospel fluency that can land the good news into this cultural moment! 

Join us on 16th March for a series of talks and workshops along with heartfelt worship and prayer, as we explore that better story. 

Seminars and mains speakers;

• Andrew Parnham
• Isabella Senior 
• Colin Barnes 
• Phil Parnham 
• Kelly Cotterell 
• Lucy Leonart 
• Trevor Withers
• and others

Worship led by Luke Hamlyn.    Refreshments and lunch provided. 

FOOTNOTES

[1] N.T. Wright, Into the Heart of Romans, chapter 1.

[2] Tom Wright, The Day the Revolution Began, chapter 2.