These past two mornings during my sweat reflection (aka listening to a podcast while riding the bike) I have been challenged by a sermon by N. T. Wright entitled Whatever did St. Paul do with the Kingdom of God. In fact I found it so good I have plans to commit a series of posts about it. I would love to get your take as I unpack it.
For starters here is a quote by Wright:
It isn’t that the gospel is about us getting saved in a different way and then oh yes there is a bit about the kingdom of God on the side. The gospel, the good news, the sigh-of-relief good news is that Jesus of Nazareth is the crucified and risen Messiah and therefore the Lord of the world and that He, as Lord of the world, will be God’s agent in make all things new at last and that we are called to share that, that is the gospel.
Too many times I believe we miss the whole part about being kingdom workers, apprentices of Jesus in God’s redemptive purposes.
Do you agree?
