• another quote . . . the backwards nature of God’s ways

    March 23, 2009

    Posted in: livetheforty

    we didn’t get to this quote - but it was printed in the Element Guide.  i’m going to prep our conversation for the coming Sunday (Lent WK 5) with this quote.  But, it also has to do with the Rich Young Ruler conversation.

    (The agenda of the Kingdom of God or ‘upside down kingdom’ is so otherworldy that) . . . “The kingdom is always in a head-on collision with the idols of contemporary life—the idols of economic power, political power, ethnic power, social power, even ecclesiastical power, to which men and women sell their souls.  This is not to mention the plausibility structures of the culture that dismiss the good news of Jesus with condescension and contempt.” Robert Thornton Henderson in Subversive Jesus, Radical Grace

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