I’ve written a gospel outline from Ecclesiastes using the Two Ways to Live framework. The first 3 boxes are from Ecclesiastes; while the second 3 boxes are from the New Testament, but with reference to the ideas from Ecclesiastes.
DOWNLOAD IT HERE (pdf). Let me know what you think.
It makes me happy the gospel is going to be preached. Awesome.
Looks nice!
Very similar to the ‘traditional’ Two Ways To Live.
My main concern is that it seems to be tending towards proof texting, because the package as presented is not the message of the author… I mean, they’re all true and the passages do support them, but is your concern the main concern of the author?
Its not a biggy, but I guess unless you gain something from taking them all from the same book, is it worth the danger? (of, say, tacitely condoning proof-texting…)
yeah – as i wrote it, i was aware that prooftexting was a danger… but i’m pretty certain that ecclesiastes (and indeed all the biblical wisdom literature) is written with clear allusions back to Genesis 1-11.
Genesis 1-11 basically covers the first three boxes of two ways to live – and i think so does ecclesiastes. in genesis 3:15 there is the early picture of the gospel… in ecclesiastes, the link isn’t as clear. but i think romans 8 and 1 cor 15 are both written with the ecclesiastes thinking in the background.
anyway – back to work.