The mission of the church in the pages of the New Testament is more like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.
This is a completely different understanding of the gospel than exists in most of the Church today. There are no 4 steps, no tracts, no prayer (not that there's anything wrong with these things). However, for the early Christians, there was simply the recognition that the message "that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive" is life-giving in itself and cannot be suppressed.
This is what I want my life to be. The fallout...
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