The church confesses that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah...God incarnate...the Savior...Lord of the Church and of the world...these focal points note solitarily of the Christian foundational faith, but also... the Rock that the Church is built upon…of the universe itself... Christian churches transversely the theological and confessional continuum are often guilt-ridden or awkwardly knowing and also possibly eluding Jesus, He is known as the cornerstone, foundation and center of the Christian faith to be; additionally the Author and Finisher of our faith, and the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, of all that is held in the faith of being a Christian is all about. Having these this foundational thoughts using Professors David Gushee and Glen Stassen write in their text book, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, “Four Dimensions of Character” and other sources; these aspects will be noted with an insight to their meanings while using Christ Jesus as the foundation; a specific steps that are involved in the decision making; details of the presentation when completed; finally the retrospective evaluation of the following three processes: (1) the process used in making the decision, (2) consideration for potential use in future ethical decision-making situations, …show more content…
Kingdom Ethics is not a light, how-to approach to making moral decisions. It is a serious look at how the church in general, and Christians specifically, have ignored significant parts of the Gospel in our leap from Jesus' birth to his death and resurrection. Beyond diagnosis of that problem, Stassen and Gushee invite us to reflect on the way we make and discuss moral decisions and to examine a pattern that follows Jesus' moral