Let's step back to reflect and recap:

I. Look Back

• Christian legacies, in varying degrees, are not just 'gospel content' but contexts where the gospel of the Kingdom operates
  (see Religious Identity and God's Kingdom slides).
• We’re all in different places along a vast continuum of exposure to 'Christianity' (see Otherness I):
  • pretty unexposed (at least before college);
  • wider cultures that are weakly ‘Christian’ and even post-Christian;
  • lingering family heritages;
  • fresh introductions through recent faith, or new personal relationships;
  • vital, maturing upbringings, albeit with personal reservations or weaker engagement;
  • migrations from one Christian tradition to another;
  • strong formation and loyalty to a specific tradition through churches, Christian schools, intentional or missionary families, close friends, etc.
• The gospel's impacts vary across and even within these 'different worlds.'
• Which worlds are you in? How about your squadmates?
• How about the people in our current TFG chapter?
• How do the range of impacts of "the gospel" (Paul's ministry, message, and example) in Phil 1:6–18 compare to the gospel's impacts in your contexts?
• Which contexts were formative for academic theology (e.g., STSB, lectures, Newbigin, your optional book)?
  How about in forming Westmont's RS department and GE curriculum? (Here is our statement of faith.)

II. Look Up

• Express-discover 2 Tim 1:6–14:
  In the passage, what does v. 14's 'entrusted deposit' or 'treasure' contain?
  How does this passage overlap with Phil 1:6–14?

III. Look Forward

• How Timothy's treasure relates to the course content in your contexts calls for discernment.
• From your squad's various perspectives, of what use are each of these course features? What do they teach, and what can they yield as we adapt them for our own contexts?
  • • the basic disciple-making practices and vision embedded in the seven sails (TW: indispensable in all contexts for grounding, growing, maturing, and multiplying)
  • • The Father Glorified (TW: narratives witness to how God is moving on some frontiers, demonstrating key 'ground-floor' practices while touching on neglected biblical themes and welcoming many legacy topics, so we can appreciate both through fresh eyes)
  • • A Walk through the Bible (TW: orients a wide audience to the faith's biblical 'foundation' by sketching the whole canonical legacy's grand narrative, so we can locate ourselves in its ongoing saga)
  • • an STSB entry on a legacy topic (TW: these introduce and highlight influential 'second-floor' teachings from a specific evangelical legacy perspective, for us to learn from and grow in the skill of appraising or discerning; many of its authors offer their own suggestions for their use)
  • • a given lecture topic (TW: these often relate multiple 'second-floor' legacy topics and sometimes others' 'third-floor' treatments or my own, and I try to suggest useful 'ground-floor' appraisals and approaches to them)
  • • your optional book (TW: it depends on the book, but most are 'third-floor' treatments displaying a personal appropriation of legacy tradition and what supports it from below)
• A way to review for the final is to divvy up those sources, understand them better, and discern their uses, both intended and potential.
  We will practice that in the next class.

IV. So What Looks Worthy, and What Needs Improving?

• (Give me your opinions on an anonymous online survey in our final class. Want mine, FWIW?)