545 What Story is the Bible Telling? with Timothy Gombis
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What story are we in? A rescue plan to get us out of a dying world? God's mission to save us from sin? Is my true purpose in life to "go to heaven and take as many people with me as I can?" Is the Bible all about Jesus? Phil sits down with the ever-provocative New Testament Bible scholar Timothy Gombis to talk about the BIG story of the Bible and God's plan for us that's even bigger than "rescue from sin." After the interview, Skye and Christian join Phil to debrief and sing, in the words of a certain tomato, the "what have we learned?" song.
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0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Timothy Gombis Interview
7:07 - Labels and Categories
17:05 - Purpose in life
29:11- Defining evangelism
37:19 - Summarizing the Gospel
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50:26 Phil, Skye, Christian debrief
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Phil, welcome back to the Holypost podcast. I am here with nobody, but me. |
| 0:05.7 | We are experimenting with a new format where earlier this week we put out just the news segment, |
| 0:11.3 | and now we're putting out the interview. Today's interview is me interviewing Timothy Gombas. |
| 0:17.0 | Timothy Gombas is a professor of New Testament. Formerly at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, |
| 0:21.8 | I believe he is not teaching there this year. He's also the author of multiple commentaries, |
| 0:26.9 | Paul, a guide for the complex, the drama of Ephesians, a new commentary on Mark's gospel, |
| 0:32.4 | and he's working on more. He's always provocative, very interesting to talk to, |
| 0:38.1 | and interesting enough that I invited Christian and Sky to join me after the interview, |
| 0:44.8 | to talk about it a little bit. So stay tuned after this interview for us to debrief what we just |
| 0:51.1 | heard. Okay? Also a reminder for our Patreon subscribers, there is a new episode of Christian |
| 0:56.8 | asks this week about how we should use the Lord's Prayer. So if you're a Patreon subscriber or |
| 1:02.3 | would like to be, go check that out. And now the theme song. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm Phil, I'm here with Timothy Gombas. It's Dr. Timothy Gombas, correct? That's right. |
| 1:35.2 | You can leave out the doctor part though. You're a medical doctor. My father's a medical doctor. |
| 1:42.0 | Whenever I hear Dr. Gombas, he's retired. When I hear Dr. Gombas, you always jump up and run |
| 1:48.9 | to the nurses station. I feel like it's my principal telling me, your father's here to set you |
| 1:55.0 | straight. Yeah, that's scary. Okay, we got fun stuff talking about with Tim. Thanks for coming |
| 2:00.7 | on the show, by the way. We haven't had in person. I listen to your show quite often, so |
| 2:06.9 | I'm very comfortable with you in my head both audibly and theologically. That's not often said. |
| 2:14.2 | I know, I know. I can only imagine. Okay, so you're doing a series on your podcast. Your podcast |
| 2:21.7 | is called Faith Improvised, which is a way of saying that you're just making this up. This you're |
| 2:27.9 | not basing this on it. It's just whatever, whatever. Faith Improvised, you're currently on the 48th part |
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