Making All Things New Department

A paragraph that caught my eye recently:

Despite the overwhelming human opinion and evidence to the contrary, Jesus did not come to start a new religion. He did not come to create a two-hour-on-Sunday parasite culture that pious people can stick on the side of their otherwise busy lives. Jesus came to subvert every aspect of live and culture with the relational Word and will of God--what he announced as the kingdom. The kingdom, or God's rule, is what brings a person's life into alignment with reality. To live in the kingdom way is to live a real and everlasting live, beginning the very moment you follow Jesus. This means that everything is overhauled or restructured to fit the kingdom way, the new way to be human. Knowledge, education, romance, marriage, sex, parenting, work, play, money, ambition, business, social services, caring for the earth, even being the church in the world--all of these areas and a thousand more now come under kingdom rule and authority. Following Jesus faithfully means seeing to it that all of these areas in our lives are subverted by the kingdom and rebuilt in the new way.

Charlie Peacock, New Way to be Human

I just started reading this book, along with Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul by Erwin McManus, and they're both challenging my notions of what it means to live as a Christian.

Comments

[mark butterworth]

Is this Peacock the musician? Anyway, what he wrote is true and well said. I wish more Christians took it to heart.

[Roy M. Jacobsen]

The very same.

Too many of the Christians I know think first and foremost that Christianity is about being saved from damnation. (Indeed, that's how I viewed it for much of my life.) I'm trying to re-educate myself, and I'm gently trying to spread the word as well.