Comments on: It’s Not a Liberal Agenda, it’s the Gospel!

By: Derek Wadsworth

Derek Wadsworth — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:52:17 +0000

Being raised in and following conservative Christianity for 31 years- I can honestly say I am fearful. I met Alan, Hugh at Exponential and am reading and watching Mike on You-tube. My heart yearns for this new found passion for others. I am praying for balance and not safety. A Go and Live with Make Disciples faith. Thank you Mike for your heart for Jesus and others.

By: Scott Hescht

Scott Hescht — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:00:40 +0000

In reply to Justin. Lack of understanding. When you have grown up under one Theological system and one way of seeing the Bible, anything different seems heretical. It took me being challenged and an open mind before I realized the gospel of the Kingdom is much more than I had realized previously.

By: Donelle

Donelle — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:25:59 +0000

I have a hard time believing there is such a polarization. I don’t see it where I live. I see religion vs grace a lot (especially online) but not many disagree that works and faith must both be present, including the call to stand for the oppressed. I wonder what community (other than online) you are familiar with? We often have the discussion about how we are to be and look separate from the world. We have faith, we know the Spirit has changed us, but just doing good in the neighbourhood doesn’t make us look any different than Tom and Jane Do-Gooder down the street who haven’t even heard of Jesus. You hit the nail on the head; we are not proclaiming Jesus. A super challenge and eye-opener you have presented to us in that. (Well, at least myself)

By: Robert Wantz

Robert Wantz — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:26:21 +0000

In reply to Gary Roth. Amen, brother.

By: Njei

Njei — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:20:57 +0000

I have tried to understand how people tend to spiritualize matters either because the situation deems it as so or lessens the guilt, and maybe both. However, there is one thing that I know for sure, in the last 20years genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, Congo, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leon, e.t.c too many countries in one concentrated region to mention. Millions of people have been killed, families misplaced, and the jungle becoming the only refuge to thousands of children. No scriptures are being quoted over these African families or Christians voicing out that these are women and children… none of that, in Rwanda alone more than 800,000 lives were slaughtered in a month. One can almost hear the drum beat matching to the sound, “Let each slaughter their own…” My question is, if the doors have been barred for these countries and others alike, why now is it “the Christian thing to do for countries in distress? I thought what’s good for the goose is good for the gender?
Let’s call a spade a spade and not a big spoon! Special Interest governs all things! Helping refugees has absolutely nothing to do with God, Jesus or even the Bible, it’s all about man and his invested interest.
I’m all for a government that will do what it deems as ‘right’ or ‘good’ because at the end of the day, it is not an eternal entity! However, when Christians pick and chose then start quoting scriptures, I can’t be silent.

Here’s a picture of an ~11yr old on the way to a feeding center, too weak to walk and collapses. I bet you the vultures can wait to feast!! Absolutely no cry from the Christian camp quoting Isaiah 58.
Let us all do what we have to do and quit soiritualizing our actions!

By: Ron Bradford

Ron Bradford — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:13:00 +0000

Many years while working at a very conservative company. I was asked on WORld day of prayer to pray that morning prayer. In my prayerI prayed for the Democratic President in office at the Time. After the service someone come up to me and accused !e of being a Liberal Lover.

By: Jeremy Weart

Jeremy Weart — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:38:47 +0000

When you read the gospels it is crystal clear that Jesus did two things all the time: pointed people to himself as the Messiah and social justice. His entire ministry was ushering in the beginning of the new age and he exhibited foretastes of it everywhere he went. As you say, Mike, both proclamation and demonstration. The Jesus ethic is interwoven throughout the New Testament. The Good Samaritan is a classic example of loving your neighbor.

By: Mike Frost

Mike Frost — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:55:36 +0000

In reply to Jenny Willetts. Oh, it's from Transforming Mission, but I can't recall the deets. I'm away from my office this week so I can't check.

By: Jenny Willetts

Jenny Willetts — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:03:53 +0000

Great blog post. I’m about to write an essay on this very topic for my theological studies. Any chance you could site your reference for David Bosch? I’d like to use it!

By: Mike Frost

Mike Frost — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:01:26 +0000

In reply to Si Lee. I've been hoping that for decades. The binary you talk about dominated the 20th Century but was unravelling at the turn of this century. The paradigm obviously runs deep for many people and it's resonances are taking longer to reject than I thought. A lot of it is anxiety. Conservative evangelical people seem to fear any nod toward social justice is a repudiation of the importance of evangelism and get on their high horses about it. Maybe another generation will make the difference.