Asbury Herald Archives: 2007
Excerpt: “. . . Our culture has become far more complicated. . . How do you carry the gospel “throughout the world” when the world is as vast, complex and self-contradictory as ours? And then there’s John 3:16. It tells us not only that God loves the world, but it also spells out more specifically and more inclusively God’s definition for the world: the word is whosoever. Here is a democracy of love beyond our comprehension. Some of us can love many people, and a few of us can love most people, but only God (or those wonderfully transformed by God) can love whosoever.” (From page 9)
Excerpt: "But scriptural holiness isn’t manageable. Scriptural holiness, like Aslan, the Christ symbol in The Chronicles of Narnia, cannot be domesticated. We don't control scriptural holiness; it controls us. Just after we’ve testified to some new spiritual victory, we discover a whole new territory that is waiting to be taken for Christ." (from page 4)
Excerpt: Evangelism in its greatest simplicity is God’s powerful, saving activity at work through us for others as we share the good news of Jesus Christ. As Wesleyans, we believe the biblical account of salvation ultimately describes the restoration of a divine relationship in which “everything has become new” (2 Cor. 5:17, NRSV), allowing each person to “have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16) and be transformed into his likeness “from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18).