Bob Hyatt has posted some great thoughts regarding the necessity for us to keep the Gospel of Jesus at the forefront of our discussions/critiques/re-visioning of what it means to be the church in our current context. His entry is entitled, The Pendulum Swings... Here is a quote:
I guess what I'm saying is that I want us to talk more about the Gospel.
I hope that the emerging conversation can remember even as we think through changes in our methodology and our ministry philosophy and even as we process our theology- the point was to renew our passion for the Gospel and the world and the God who worked through the first to reach the second-to become missional. Yes, we can see God in everything and everyone, but if we can't also see that He wants to redeem everything, that He died for a reason,that mankind has a need and that only Jesus will fill it... we may end up eventually in the same place as some of our forefathers and mothers- presiding over some culturally relevant but spiritually impotent communities, which may feed people's physical hunger, but have sometimes forgotten about the greatest hunger of all.
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