What your church should do as part of the Church
I’ve just finished reading “What is the mission of the church?” by Kevin Deyoung and Greg Gilbert. The tag line for the book is “Making sense of social justice, shalom and the great commission”, which is what they do.
The thing I liked about this book is that they actually looked at the Bible - there are many pages of actually unpacking Biblical texts. The result is a book that looks at what the Church’s priorities should be. (I know there’s another issue about whether the Church exists for any purpose or is actually ‘an end in herself’, the end-goal if you like. But stand that to one side for the moment).
Deyoung and Gilbert look at what the Bible means by justice. They also have some wise advice on how to work out priorities for helping people in a world of unlimited needs where technology brings those problems right into our lounge room. How do we work out what to do, when we obviously can’t do everything, but must do something? There’s also a good hypothetical discussion between a fresh young pastor and an older pastor about priorities in pastoring and ministry.
This is a good read for the ‘young reformed and restless’ and also the middle aged reformed and grumpy.
Cheers,
Al
Al Stewart
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