“Israel believed (so Paul tells us, and he should know) that the purposes of the creator God all came down to this question: how is God going to rescue Israel? What the gospel of Jesus revealed, however, was that the purposes of God were reaching out to a different question: how is God going to rescue the world through Israel and thereby rescue Israel itself as part of the process but not as the point of it all? Maybe what we are faced with in our own day is a similar challenge: to focus not on the question of which human beings God is going to take to heaven and how he is going to do it but on the question of how God is going to redeem and renew his creation through human beings and how he is going to rescue those humans themselves as part of the process but not as the point of it all.”
Quote by N.T. Wright
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Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
This book delves into the traditional Christian beliefs about heaven and the resurrection, challenging readers to reconsider these ideas within the context of the church's mission and purpose. more
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