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Re: NT Wright, mission, and the big red balloon

Re: NT Wright, mission, and the big red balloon

Peter, I think you’ve missed the point - you were clearly distracted by your lack of preparedness for tomorrow. I did not say there was no announcement:

Neither in Judea nor in the Greek-Roman world did the announcement of that ‘good news’ transform people and societies’. Rather it lead to the formation of an alternative people and society that had a hard enough time preserving its own righteousness.

The disciples told first Jews and then Gentiles what God had done for Israel in raising Jesus from the dead. First Jews then Gentiles believed that announcement and found that they were free to worship the God of Israel in Spirit and in truth. They became part of the covenant community that worshipped the creator God, and in that way, outside the Law, God demonstrated his righteousness and remained faithful to his promise to Abraham.

But this announcement about what God had done for Israel did not result in the transformation of either Jewish (hence AD 70) or Roman (hence the Visigoths!) society. It resulted in the regeneration of Israel as a viable and dynamic people for God’s possession, dispersed (in accordance with the creational mandate) throughout the world.