Reading NT Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope this afternoon. A few quotes for your reading pleasure:
The mission of the church is nothing more or less than the outworking, in the power of the Spirit, of Jesus’s bodily resurrection and thus the anticipation of the time when God will fill the earth with his glory, transform the old heavens and earth into the new, and raise his children from the dead to populate and rule over the redeemed world he has made. (265)
and…
the split between saving souls and doing good in the world is a product not of the Bible or the gospel but of the cultural captivity of both within the Western world… (265)