S2E8: Exploration

Description

This week, Benjamin and Ryker chart out the theology of exploration, discovering how the unknown frontier can be holy ground.

Show Notes (The Theology of Exploration) S2:E8

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Table of Contents & Timestamps:

(0:00-2:02) Introduction

(2:02-8:57) What is Exploration?

(9:27-28:30) “Exploring” the Bible

(28:52-31:55) God’s Playground

(31:55-34:50) The Open Book of Nature

(34:50-38:14) The Journey of the Christian Faith

(38:35-40:29) Adventuring in the Wrong Places

(40:29-45:25) A Whole New World...

(45:25-49:01) Outro

Key Takeaways:

Exploration is an open-ended journey into the unknown
The mundane parts of our lives are charged with with untapped exploratory potential
Exploration is a key theme in the Bible, either as a good, Edenic adventure or a bad, Exilic wandering
Knowing God is like exploring uncharted territory on a map
The New Heavens and New Earth will be an entirely new world for us to explore
Outward exploration leads to inward exploration; foreign exploration leads to domestic exploration

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