I'm thinking of writing two more posts after this one:
This one - briefly, some big questions
The next one - some broad conclusions
The final one - my main point.
How's that for succinct?
Today then: if the New Testament deals with God's mission (seemingly exclusively) in terms of the gospel of the messiah being proclaimed to the ends of the earth, of God's salvation being offered to all, then surely that is God's mission? And if so, why has so much of this book seemingly been about how God's mission is so much more than this?
Is it just semantics? Is it unnecessary for me to be seeing distinctions between God's overall mission, his big plan for the world, and the execution of that plan in time, such as the apostles and the early church? In other words, is it possible that the New Testament's clear focus and emphasis on a verbal proclamation of good news about the crucified and risen Jesus just happens to be a New Testament thing, and really only one element or one dimension of a much broader mission?
I think that's unlikely...
Furthermore, questions remain, not really as a result of what Wright says, but because of the implications of what he says:
What is the gospel? What is the good explicit, and what is the bad implicitly, in the 'good' of good news?
What is salvation?
These are such fundamental questions...
This one - briefly, some big questions
The next one - some broad conclusions
The final one - my main point.
How's that for succinct?
Today then: if the New Testament deals with God's mission (seemingly exclusively) in terms of the gospel of the messiah being proclaimed to the ends of the earth, of God's salvation being offered to all, then surely that is God's mission? And if so, why has so much of this book seemingly been about how God's mission is so much more than this?
Is it just semantics? Is it unnecessary for me to be seeing distinctions between God's overall mission, his big plan for the world, and the execution of that plan in time, such as the apostles and the early church? In other words, is it possible that the New Testament's clear focus and emphasis on a verbal proclamation of good news about the crucified and risen Jesus just happens to be a New Testament thing, and really only one element or one dimension of a much broader mission?
I think that's unlikely...
Furthermore, questions remain, not really as a result of what Wright says, but because of the implications of what he says:
What is the gospel? What is the good explicit, and what is the bad implicitly, in the 'good' of good news?
What is salvation?
These are such fundamental questions...
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