Last week I had the privilege of joining my good friends at the ABC Conference in Dallas. The theme of the conference was “The Groaning Cosmos” taken from Romans 8. My last session on Saturday dealt with one of my favorite passages, Romans 8:18-25. Below is the gist of what I said (explained in much more detail in my book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different).
For a long time now, I’ve been convinced that the way most Christians think about redemption is influenced more by ancient Greek philosophy than by the Bible. We think of ultimate redemption as being redemption from the body, not of the body; redemption from the world, not of the world; redemption from the material, not of the material. This, however, goes against what the Bible clearly teaches about redemption.
In the Lord’s Prayer we see that God’s ultimate goal for earth is that it become like heaven.
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10)
God’s mission is to bring heaven to earth—this planet! Keep Reading...
No comments:
Post a Comment