missional living // part the third

I really don’t know how long these posts are going to go on, but I’m going to keep throwing them out there for now. I’ve finished reading Deep Church, but I keep running back through it because there was so much good stuff in there. Here’s a quote from this mornings review:

Out greatest priority, particularly in our theologies of salvation, should be to join the benefits of salvation with the responsibilities and call to the saved to enter in God’s mission in the world.

Once again, this goes back to our wheel and box model. The basic question is, “Is salvation personal and private or is it personal and public?” In other words, when we know the goodness of what Christ has done, should it not then begin to affect everyone you affect?

And God said to Abraham, “And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing…Genesis 12.2

Not, I will bless you, don’t tell anybody though.