Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done

KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE

"Missional faith asserts that Jesus came to preach the good news of the kingdom of God to everyone, especially the poor. He came to seek and save the lost. He came on behalf of the sick. He came to save the world. His gospel and therefore the Christian message , is good news for the whole world. The idea that the Christian message is universally good news for Christians and non Christians alike is , to some, unheard of, strange, and perhaps heretical.......Jesus was a Jew and so saw Himself as one of Abraham's descendants. Abraham's original contact with God involved a kind of mission statement: I will bless you, God said, and I will make you a blessing to others. I will make your name and nation great, God said, and through you, all nations will be blessed. "

Proposal/Fireseed Anthology/Making Disciples

When Campus Crusade mobilized 10,000 students last year to reach Katrina victims, I was extremely proud of our organization.

Social Action and Service are at the heart of the post-modern students. Faith married with actions, Orthoproxy (right practice) lining up with Orthodoxy (right belief), will be expressions of true faith for the believer.

Self-addiction, a consumer mentality has plagued recent decades of Christians…journals filled with prayers about me, me, me. I fear that too often the vision of the gospel and a relationship with God that is given is so individualistic and selfish in nature that many don’t realize the revolutionary call Christ gave to those who would be His disciples…I wonder if I realize it.

Jesus’ central message and teachings centered on the Kingdom of God. I am not an official theologian…but when I was first reading the Bible on my own in college, not influenced by the church culture…I would have told you this was central to Jesus’ teaching. The Kingdom of Heaven is the reign of Christ in the lives of men now and for eternity to an ever increase. In the Kingdom of Heaven a man forgives an infinite amount of times realizing the forgiveness of Christ. In the Kingdom, you don’t merely love those who love you but love your enemies. In the Kingdom, God is more than fair…He is extravagantly generous to the one who has earned nothing…who has not bore the heat of the day. Jesus’ vision of His Kingdom calls us to go beyond what is comfortable, safe, and fair to be generous, radically loving, and to value the beggar, to live more righteously than a Pharisee, and to never be ashamed of Christ. Jesus calls us to take up our cross and follow Him.