Blog Archive » Christianity Today http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh for posterity and whatnot Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:37:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Evacuation theology? http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2009/04/28/evacuation-theology/ http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2009/04/28/evacuation-theology/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:54:51 +0000 Kevin http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/?p=7570 Some food for thought from Rob Bell in an interview with Christianity Today:

You say, “Jesus wants to save us from making the Good News about another world and not this one.” What do you mean?

The story is about God’s intentions to bring about a new heaven and a new earth, and the story begins here with shalom—shalom between each other and with our Maker and with the earth. The story line is that God intends to bring about a new creation, this place, this new heaven and earth here. And that Jesus’ resurrection is the beginning, essentially, of the future; this great Resurrection has rushed into the present.

The evacuation theology that says, “figure out the ticket, say the right prayer, get the right formula, and then we’ll go somewhere else” is lethal to Jesus, who endlessly speaks of the renewal of all things.

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The greatest social need in the world today is not HIV/AIDS outreach. It’s not hunger. It’s not global warming. Not ending poverty or eliminating malaria or tuberculosis. Not clean water. Not racial reconciliation. Not sexual trafficking. Not abortion. And it’s not peace in the Middle East, and not even world peace.

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That social problem is alienation from God.

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