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TIME MANAGEMENT (24) (Overview: Taking Plessure off Redemption) (02)
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2009-08-28 12:58:50, 조회 : 2,023 |
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(2) Planning and Triumphalism
(1) The most disturbing aspect of this forced view of time redemption, whether applied to evangelism or any other area of the Christian life, is that it supports a triumphalistic view of the church's mission.
(2) In spite of being told that this world may be going from bad to worse, in the church we are told that its ministry is growing, people are going to get better and better. (the future-oriented dynamic)
(3) Be careful, rather Christiana praise God for conversions, growing churches and greater missionary efforts. Signs of God's ultimate victory are evident, and we rejoice in them.
(4) Problem with triumphalism, however, is that it does not give due recognition to the element of suffering in the fulfillment of the church‘s mission.
(5) Both planning and hope (for triumph) are expressions of dissatisfaction with the present, but only hope sees redemptive purpose in suffering.
(6) Planning may cause suffering, but suffering really serves no purpose in the triumphalistic view of the future.
(7) Biblical hope, however, includes the perception and acceptance of suffering ad part of God's plan fir his church and therefore for us personally (2 Cor 1:5-7; Col 1:24; 1 Pet 4:12-13).
(8) Planning can be biblical if it is accompanied by meekness and hope; the church \\\"must recapture this view of God which places him above the times in all his majesty and power, and yet in the times in weakness and suffering hope.\\\"
(9) This means that the church must call a halt to its complicity with the world and its game called succeed-status-domination.
(10) We need eyes to see them and a will trained to act. It is a matter of our inner time controlling the external time, and not vice versa.
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