The mission of God is not to get people saved. Now that I likely have your attention, let me also acknowledge that getting people saved is an essential piece of God’s present work in the world. However, we need to view God’s mission from God’s vantage point rather than from ours. Failure to do so has the inevitable result of making it all us.
The mission of God in the world is to establish and sustain a shalom-filled world that is overflowing in relationship with him. It is a world where his image is reflected through his eikons to the rest of the created order, to each other, and back to God. It is a world where his eikons exercise co-creative dominion over the created order and bring all things to their fullest state of existence.
Uh...for those of you that may no know, shalom means peace and eikon roughly means image...in this instance how people are images of God.
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