While I was in Malawi, I posted on some quotes from CT's interview with Ron Sider that is now online. It is quite challenging indeed. But necessary for us to hear.
While in Africa, I found myself thinking along similar lines: What is the "good news" for these people? How does the church as "bearers" of the "good news" proclaim and demonstrate it? How does a genuine, caring Christian community, also be a community of transformation and participation in God's gospel mission to the world?
More on this later this week, but consider Sider's comments below as "food for thought"
Link: The Evangelical Scandal - Christianity Today Magazine.
I would think that evangelicals would want to get biblical and define the gospel the way Jesus did—which is that it's the Good News of the kingdom. Then we see that it means that the way to get into this kingdom is through unconditional grace because Jesus died for us. But it also means there's now a new kingdom community of Jesus' disciples, and that embracing Jesus means not just getting fire insurance so that one doesn't go to hell, but it means embracing Jesus as Lord as well as Savior. And it means beginning to live as a part of his new community where everything is being transformed.
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