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At the risk of stating the obvious (and of exposing my own failings…), this is a discussion which will fit well with our evangelical disposition to activism - by which I mean, it’s very easy for us to forget prayer. Perhaps there’s one of your post topics for you!
Thanks for the post. I think those two questions are pretty good.
I do think we have to tread quite carefully around the idolatory issue though. It would be easy to run away from the world because of the many idols it presents, but Paul seems to be saying in 1 Cor 10 that it’s not quite that simple - but perhaps you’ll cover that when you get to that question!
cant wait to see the length and depth of this discussion.. challenging, frightening,and encouraging to see what we can do as ordinary christians dedicated to an extraordinary ( the only true) God.. who actually wants us for his co workers..to explore what we can do, and be able to combat those things whch drag us away… Good on you nicole, and other contributors..
Thanks so much for your thoughts. It is always heart warming to be stirred up in my thinking about it means to be ‘sent by Jesus’.
It is always tricky in knowing how to capture or express this aspect of the Christian life without it sounding like an extra or seperate part of the Christian life instead of being ‘the Christian life’ to be in ordinary everyday relationships with those in our lives. The definition could read:- a ‘discipleship/Christian lifestyle’ is one in which we are in the lives of our neighbours, seeking their good—especially their salvation’.
This is not meant to be a criticism but adding a thought to the discussion.
Thanks LT!
Dave and I had a conversation about the same thing, actually - why not drop the ‘missional’ adjective (fashionable/cliched as it is!) and just go with ‘a Christian lifestyle’?
In the end, we decided to keep the ‘missional’ word and stop short of proposing our little one-sentence formula as a total summation for the whole Christian life. What we had in mind was just (!) the question of how the sort of big-picture vision the Bible gives us in verses like 1 Cor 10:31 and Matt 22:37-39 relates to the specific issue of how we are to relate to our neighbours and our world.
Now obviously everything is inter-connected one way or another, so maybe that constraint is a bit artificial! But I still wanted to try and keep the ‘mission’ question in focus as much as possible in the coming posts, and not drift into a larger discussion of ‘everything that could possibly be said about every aspect of how a Christian ought to live’.
And thanks Anthony and Sam and Sharan!
I agree about prayer, Anthony - thanks for the reminder. I’ll have to work out where it fits in the framework now…
Sam, I think you’re right about the complexity of the idolatry issue. I put 1 Cor 10:27ff in the ‘involved…’ half of the definition, but it could just as easily have been in the ‘idolatry’ half, as a kind of qualification or explanation, I suspect.
And thanks Sharan for the encouragement. IT is an amazing privilege, isn’t it. But for the grace of God it would seem blasphemous or presumptuous to even think of talking about our role in those kinds of terms!!
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