A great piece on the relationship of Mission to church. On Glens blog. (sorry - that sounds sooo patronising!!!!)
Must confess to having uncritically taken on board the idea that salvation is communal - and that is (as with a lot of good ideas) partially true.
I suspect that the communal dimension to salvation is very culturally conditioned. Reading Vincent Donovan's excellent "Christianity Rediscovered" a culture that is very group oriented responds village by village - the whole village accepts or rejects the gospel. And we individualistic westerners think - "I wonder if some of them have decided that the gospel is true?"
Answer: "Does not compute" And for some X / Y (whatever) gen people it seems to compute less.
Cherish the contradictions is perhaps a better reponse!
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