06/30/2019
Revelation 10-11
Andre Franklin
Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife Terri and little girls Mia & Minkah) are native Texans who moved to the East Durham community over a year ago. Andre loves to spend time with his family, travel , read, make specialty coffee, and try new foods.
“Thus it would be a serious mistake to understand the images of Revelation as timeless symbols. Their character conforms to the contextuality of Revelation as a letter to the seven churches of Asia. Their resonances in the specific social, political, cultural and religious world of their first readers need to be understood if their meaning is to be appropriated today. They do not create a purely self-contained aesthetic world with no reference outside itself, but intend to relate to the world in which the readers live in order to reform and to redirect the readers’ response to that world. However, if the images are not timeless symbols, but relate to the ‘real’ world, we need also to avoid the opposite mistake of taking them too literally as descriptive of the ‘real’ world and of predicted events in the ‘real’ world. They are not just a system of codes waiting to be translated into matter-of-fact references to people and events. Once we begin to appreciate their sources and their rich symbolic associations, we realize that they cannot be read either as literal descriptions or as encoded literal descriptions, but must be read for their theological meaning and their power to evoke response.” -Richard Bauckham
When They See Us (Netflix miniseries on the Central Park Five)
Heaven and Earth (from the Bible Project)
Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
How Long? by Wardell
How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk
The Earth is Yours by Gungor
God With Us by Ingram/Jordan
This is My Father’s World by Babcock/Sheppard
Come to the Table (Isa 55) by Wilson
Doxology
Revelation Reading:
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology) by Richard Bauckham
Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture by Brian Blount
The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment by Elisabeth Shüssler Fiorenza
Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation by Michael Gorman
Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha & Anthony O’Hear
Revelation (Brazos Commentary) by Joseph Mangina
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene Peterson
From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective ed. David Rhoads
