From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 12th
& 13th written by Pastor Bob Brown:
The Christian church in the West
suffers from a bad case of rugged individualism. This has allowed the culture to
influence the shape of its mission.
Solitary souls hear the Gospel and
privately receive its message of hope in the life to come. There's nothing
particularly Christian about private immortality ― the pagans believed in life after
death and trembled. All of that spills over into the way we do mission.
We're not prepared to argue with the statement that God saves the world one
soul at a time. On the other hand, there is something painfully
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