Christ-Centered Theology

There are many joys in ministry as well as many struggles. The greatest joy is to be Christ-centered or Christo-centric in our theology. I call it a struggle because we should toil and strain over every word of God. We should be investing all of our mind into every word of God(2 Timothy 2:15).

I am blessed to be involved in a new ministry through Grace Partners. We have created a ministry called "CCT" or "Christ-Centered Theology". The purpose of our ministry is exactly what it sounds like. We desire to be Christ-centered in our thinking about God. Through careful exegesis we desire, as sound theologians should, to see Jesus in ALL the texts. Our aim in our exegesis is not only to pull Christ out of the text but to see the text in light of Christ. We want to be wearing our "Jesus goggles" when we exegete the text. That is why are purpose statement reads; "Exegeting Jesus to see Him magnified and glorified". If Jesus is the purpose of ALL the texts, then we want to exegete Him through our study of His Word.

Our ministry will contains a few dimesions. We have and will continue to conduct phone interviews with renown pastors, authors and theologians. Currently, we have conducted phone interviews with Philip Graham Ryken and Thomas Schreiner. We have Mark Driscoll lined up for an interview on July 22, 2008 and John Piper on August 12, 2008. We are currently in contact with many more experienced pastors, teachers and theologians to have on the program.

Another aspect to our ministry will be conferences. We have Bruce Ware coming to speak at our conference in December and we will make the audio of that conference available on our website. Since our website is not currently up and running yet, we will temporarily have it on a blog site.

Our website will also contain our writings. They will range from short devotionals to longer theologically constructed articles.

We will attempt to have our sermons and teachings on our site as well.

We desire to equip pastors and those in ministry to be encouraged and built up for their ministry and therefore better able to equip their flock. We certainly gain from this experience ourselves and hope to pass this edification on to others. As young pastors, we want to glean from the knowledge of more experienced pastors and theologians.

Exegeting the text is our starting point and we want to make it our chief-end. We want to see Jesus glorified through careful exegesis!