The Good News
Thanks to everyone who wrote up an answer to my previous post. I've been taking a class on the Emerging Church, and one of the things we talked about was how we define the Gospel, or the Good News. In Protestant circles, we have emphasised the importance of Christ's death on the cross, often at the expense of Christ's inauguration of the Kingdom of God.
So to answer my own question:
The way I understand it, the Good News is that through Jesus Christ, God launched His Kingdom here on earth - and we are invited to join Him in the redemption of the world. By loving God above all else, and loving our neighbours as ourselves (which basically means dying to ourselves and dying to living in a false reality where we are at the center of the world), we can join God in changing the world. Can the news get any better than that?
Comments?
So to answer my own question:
The way I understand it, the Good News is that through Jesus Christ, God launched His Kingdom here on earth - and we are invited to join Him in the redemption of the world. By loving God above all else, and loving our neighbours as ourselves (which basically means dying to ourselves and dying to living in a false reality where we are at the center of the world), we can join God in changing the world. Can the news get any better than that?
Comments?
posted by Thais at 4:25 PM
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i agree with you...however, i'm becoming more and more convinced that the Good News is more simple than that. the Good News...the Gospel...IS Jesus. period.
i just got back from a great retreat/meetings up north with yfc people. we should hang out and talk soon. we addressed a lot of the feelings/thoughts you and i often have. :)
much love to you and your american-made car.
"we can join God in changing the world."
I agree with the sentiments here, and I'm sure you weren't trying to imply this. But, I think we also need to remember that it's God through us; meaning, only by Him are we able to do it. We forget that sometimes.
And Fuller has classes on the ermerging movement? Really, don't you west-coasters have anything better to study than that? Theology, history, Greek? I kid because I'm a wuss and doing education so I don't have to do Greek. Although, I think I may.
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