Heterodoxy is the New Orthodoxy: Is Ambiguity the New Clarity?
Heterodoxy is the New Orthodoxy: Is Ambiguity the New Clarity?
Brian McLaren's evangelism fails to embrace Christ as center of humanity's salvation
By Brian McGregor-Foxcroft
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
October 10, 2010
Pinch me, somebody. I need to make sure I'm really conscious. Just when I think I've heard it all, I'm surprised anew. I suppose by now I should have learned to know better. And I am capable of understanding and appreciating that God's word is full of paradox, but it has never been nor will be contradictory. There is a clear and central and unambiguous message, and that message is the story of God's covenant with his people through his son Jesus Christ. This is the central thread that ties everything else together, and without which the whole history of salvation falls flat on its face.
Having established this fact, I must ask the question,"How can you have a genuine evangelism that does not embrace Christ as the center of humanity's salvation, but sees it as merely one option in the midst of many?" The answer is, "It can be done if your understanding of evangelism embraces a meaning not supported by the New Testament's meaning of the term." For the purpose of clarification the Greek word "euangelion" means "the 'good news' about the salvation God has provided through Jesus Christ" (Mounce's Expository Dictionary, Zondervan, 2006, page 302). In its New Testament context it is an unambiguous word.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Brian McLaren's evangelism fails to embrace Christ as center of humanity's salvation
By Brian McGregor-Foxcroft
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
October 10, 2010
Pinch me, somebody. I need to make sure I'm really conscious. Just when I think I've heard it all, I'm surprised anew. I suppose by now I should have learned to know better. And I am capable of understanding and appreciating that God's word is full of paradox, but it has never been nor will be contradictory. There is a clear and central and unambiguous message, and that message is the story of God's covenant with his people through his son Jesus Christ. This is the central thread that ties everything else together, and without which the whole history of salvation falls flat on its face.Having established this fact, I must ask the question,"How can you have a genuine evangelism that does not embrace Christ as the center of humanity's salvation, but sees it as merely one option in the midst of many?" The answer is, "It can be done if your understanding of evangelism embraces a meaning not supported by the New Testament's meaning of the term." For the purpose of clarification the Greek word "euangelion" means "the 'good news' about the salvation God has provided through Jesus Christ" (Mounce's Expository Dictionary, Zondervan, 2006, page 302). In its New Testament context it is an unambiguous word.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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