Jan
03
2009
Saturdays are for Holy Subversion
Many of you know that I have been working on a book for Crossway entitled Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals. I will be giving more details about this book as the release date gets closer. For now, I’d like to give readers of Kingdom People a sneak peek by posting a quote from Holy Subversion every Saturday. I hope the brief quotes will stir up some good discussion. Here’s one to kick us off:
True Christianity is not merely life-changing; it is world-changing.
Emphasize only the changing of individual lives and we will fail to call political systems, philosophies, and human structures to account under Jesus’ lordship.
Emphasize only political systems, philosophies, and human structures and we will compromise in our work for worldly progress while people remain dead in their sins.
But put the message of Jesus’ atoning death on the cross together with the biblical call to bring our world under the lordship of the Risen Jesus and we have an explosive message that rocks our world to its very core. It is the apostolic message of Christianity.