The apostles preached the gospel of Christ out of the Old Testament background. Yet there has always been a tendency in the church to cut the Christian message loose from its Old Testament roots. Biblical faith is historical, convenantal and eschatological. When this happens, the Christian message is placed in either a rationalistic or a mystical framework and is consequently distorted. What is needed is a return to biblical faith, which is not just Christian but Judeo-Christian.
Biblical faith is historical, covenantal and eschatological.
The first thing that must be said about biblical faith is that it is historical faith. The Bible has a historical framework. Man is essentially a historical being. Biblical faith understands human existence and human destiny in irreducibly historical terms. And it is not very different on the corporate level.