1. gospel as logocentric, so any attempts to translate that tendency--to other kinds of text.
   
2. these tects include flesh---one of the goals of xianity is to mediate b/w flesh and the word
   
3. this requires an awareness of the word, and not only yr flesh, but the flesh of other members of the body of christ
   
4. ministry then becomes this mediating, has a triune formulae, know the text, connect that text to yr flesh, connect yr flesh and the texts to others
5. this class then, functioned as another way of recognizing how this could work, but also how it failed to work.