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What is an Hebraic Worldview? The vision of the creation that was given by God to the Hebrew nation. The Hebrews were taught by God to see the throne of God as existing over the present earth; this was called the heaven of God, or the third heaven. The two other heavens were those of humanity (the first) and the angelic (the second). This is in contrast to the Platonic worldview that disconnected the heaven of God from the present creation and made it something we could only access or engage in the next life. The Hebraic worldview was holistic. It viewed men and women as God’s image-bearers, living out their vocation to fill all of creation with the glory of God. For the Hebrew, God’s creative order was to be enjoyed, not treated as something to be endured until death took them away from the earth. |
[Heaven's Answer] reveals how we might live and breathe in a real hope that goes beyond that of seeing the restoration of apostles, to, as Ben says, the release and deployment of an apostolic company (the church) of grace-filled believers to accomplish their God-given assignments in all of life.
In Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma Ben Gray brings a thoughtful and balanced voice to the table. Eschewing the structural solutions that are all the rage, he calls instead for an incarnational church that hears God’s voice and seeks to engage and impact the bloodied world in which the church finds itself.
Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma ... flowed nicely from the history of where we have come from as the church, and the ‘Greco-roman’ mindsets that have limited us from living in the supernatural Hebraic and eternal truths of our God. As the book so eloquently points out, knowledge does not equate to practice.
Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma is one of the best I’ve ever read concerning the great reformation that has started to touch the church worldwide. This is an important book for all to read, especially church and marketplace leaders. 