Saturday, June 06, 2009

"Jesus didn't come to make us Christian.."

"Jesus didn't come to make us Christian, he came to make us fully human."
-Hans Rookmaaker

"As much as I detest it, zero time and energy should be spent on curbing 'the pop economy that is evangelicalism' Instead our time should be spent changing appetites, which requires going deeper in God. It also requires recovering a theology of creation that accurately defines salvation as the restoration of God’s spiritual, intellectual, creative, relational and moral image imprinted on humans, instead of defining salvation as protection against hell. Hans Rookmaaker said Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian, Jesus came to make us 'fully human.' Those who are fully human have no appetite for the crap pumped out in culture and the Christian subculture. Fully human—created in the image of God—such souls hunger for God and a richer culture and set about producing it. This remnant of fully human individuals is the hope."
-Dick Staub

1 comment:

  1. oh yeah..Tony. Great reference.

    Of course the answer is yes, both

    -dave

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