In my seminary class on Mission, we covered the work of David Bosch, one of the theologians who furthered the idea that mission work didn't need to involve an airplane ticket, that there's mission work to be done at home. I was taken with his idea of how we can recognize the work of God.
I am not sure I can explain it well, but I want to capture an idea that has intrigued me for a few days now, the idea that the work of God, the mission of God, can be recognized in the overlap between a saved universe and a just universe. And it's God's vision for creation--not for a future time, but right here, right now.
In fact, that may not be what Bosch wrote, but it also intrigues me in a different way.
Maybe we recognize the work we should be doing by looking at this overlap or by asking these questions: "Does this work usher in a more just universe?" "Does this work offer some form of salvation, a saving kind of power?"
Are we moving the world towards justice and salvation? And I think of salvation in a very different way than many Christians have. I am less interested in saving souls so that they can go to Heaven than I am in saving creation for future Christians.
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