Evangelicalism is a religion of decisions and transactions. Jesus proclaims the arrival of the reign of God. There are decisions to be made, but reducing the Gospel to a decision to accept “God’s plan for my life” or giving the right answer to the question of how to go to heaven seems to have moved well past what Jesus was doing in his earthly ministry.Amen! Good Stuff!
The decisions most often presented to Jesus’ hearers were 1) the decision to recognize the reality of the Kingdom of God and 2) the decision to recognize Jesus as the messiah who is bringing that Kingdom into the world.
As useful as John 3:16 is as a summary of the Gospel, it is not an entirely useful summary of Jesus as we meet him in the synoptic Gospels. “Eternal life” is the life of God available in the present, It is John’s version of saying “The Kingdom of God is upon you.”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Decisions and Transactions
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