“When we grasp that the whole Bible constitutes the coherent revelation of the mission of God, when we see this as the key that unlocks the driving purposefulness of the whole grand narrative, then we find our whole world view impacted by this vision. As has been well documented, every human worldview is an outworking [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Christopher J. H. Wright’
August 10, 2009
“The whole Gospel” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“There is no other power, no other resource, no other name through which we can offer the whole Gospel to the whole person and the whole world than Jesus Christ crucified and risen.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 315-316.
August 3, 2009
“O, hear the music of God’s future” by Christopher J. H. Wright
“Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God’s future and dance to it today.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 134.
August 3, 2009
“Christ’s monumental cosmic claim” by Christopher J. H. Wright
“When we come to the Great Commission we find indicative followed by imperative. Jesus begins with the monumental cosmic claim, words that echo the affirmation of Moses about YHWH Himself (Deut 4:35, 39), that ‘all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me’ (Mt 28:18). This is the reality behind the command, [...]
August 20, 2008
“The cancer of idolatry” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2006), 179.
August 20, 2008
“What a travesty” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“What a travesty it is when humans, who themselves are the work of God’s hands and were made to rule the rest of the works of God’s hands, choose instead to worship the work of their own hands (Ps. 115:4).”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: [...]
August 20, 2008
“We invent surrogate deities” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“Having turned our back on the sole living Creator of all that provides for our needs, we invent surrogate deities to fill the vacuum.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2006), 170.
August 20, 2008
“The fount of life” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“The cross, paradoxically the most terrible symbol of death in the ancient world, is the fount of life.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2006),313.
August 20, 2008
“The One who has set His glory above the heavens” by Christopher J.H. Wright
“The One who has set His glory above the heavens is the only One before whom we should tremble in awe and worship.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2006), 171.
January 16, 2008
“Such is the triumph of the mission of God” by Christopher J. H. Wright
“It is most unlikely that Paul lived to ever have had the opportunity to read the final prophetic book of the biblical canon, the Revelation, but if he had it would have warmed his heart and had his full agreement. For it too is saturated with Old Testament images, visions and quotations, not least in [...]
January 16, 2008
“The church was made for mission–God’s mission” by Christopher J. H. Wright
“Mission is not ours; mission is God’s. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; [...]
