Sunday 18 April 2010
To say God loves the world, but not to show that love in practical ways, that would seem to me to undermine the proclamation. And to show God’s love in material ways but not to put it into words, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either. Because I see the gospel as Jesus’ message that the kingdom of God is at hand, and because I see the kingdom of God as good news for all creation — not just the souls of the elect — I don’t put social and spiritual into separate categories. But I understand how, for many good evangelicals, the world is divided into those categories, so they’ll express things in this way. Brian McLaren ☀
