Nathan Campbell, who runs one of my favourite sites “St. Eutychus” interviewed me a couple of weeks ago about some of my recent media work, how it came about and the principles I try and work under when I’m doing stuff like that.
It’s fun looking back at what you slightly recall saying.
Here’s the link to the whole thing, “Being on message for Jesus without projecting yourself: an interview with David Ould“.
I agree โ but when youโre approaching an issue like asylum seekers โย I really liked that post you wrote where you retold the Gospel as a refugee storyย โ Iโm thinking thereโs an art to that, and thatโs the kind of social justicy stuff I think we should be doing โ social justice that specifically demonstrates the Gospel story. There doesnโt seem to be a huge model for thatโฆ
There is a model for that. The Scriptures, not least of which, Jesus himself. Itโs a model. Marriage models the Gospel โ so when youโre talking about marriage and sex and that kind of thing, you talk about it as a picture of the Gospel. And youโve got Jesusโ parables, heโll go โso there was a farmer in the field, and he needs some workersโฆโ โ he tells the Gospel of Grace in categories of whatever the debate is at the time. What he never allows those categories to do is distort what the Gospel is. Itโs about letting the Gospel shape the way you come to an issue โ so you ask โwhat does the Gospel have to say about this issue?โ not โwhat does moralism have to say about this issue?โ thatโs the difference isnโt it. The question you need to ask is โif the Gospel were to be framed in the categories that are now in front of me, how would that be expressed?โ
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