Sunday Night with Wright

So for the past 48 hours I had the chance to hang out with about 60 other pastors and Bishop NT Wright and a beautiful retreat center in the hill country of west Texas. Here are my thoughts from Sunday night, with more detail about the rest of Wright's lectures to follow.
Sunday Night
After two hours of driving away from my home (currently known as MASH Unit 111) and jamming out to Bill Mallonee’s stuff, I arrived at Laity Lodge. The road that leads from the highway to the actual lodge is insane. Besides razor sharp turns and ridiculous inclines and descents, the is quarter mile trek up river- in the actual river. You read this correctly, the road is underwater, and everyone here seems to be ok with it. Dinner starts in about ten minutes, and I believe NT Wright is up shortly after that.
Dinner was excellent, followed by introductions and some introductory remarks from Bishop Wright. For the most part this evening was just a chance to give us an overview of what we will be doing tomorrow. Apparently he is going to give four talks over the next day and a half, three tomorrow and one on Tuesday morning. Two quotes from the introductory stuff stands out, they are not new if you know NT Wright’s stuff, but helpful for discussion at the very least: 1. “Resurrection is about life after life after death.” This is a really profound and simple way of explaining that our soteriologies and our eschatologies are far too narrow. One of his example passages is Luke 23 and the dialogue between the thieves and Jesus. Pay close attention to the timeline and the fact that Jesus rises from the dead three days later.
2. “The role of post modernity is to preach the fall to arrogant modernists.” This seems to me to be spot on, and seems to be my primary task over and over again in my church. The postmodern gets evil, and can see past the lies of modernity, and our task ask is to name that evil as sin. If the evil is sin, then the gospel gets to be genuine good news again.