Talking with a “solid” evangelical” leader the other day I heard him say something to the effect of, “our message never changes, our methods may but not our message.” I would suggest that our message does in fact need to evolve.
Consider Salvation: The centrality of the cross. Our sinfulness. Our need for be made holy by the work of Christ and we speak of Salvation history etc.
In the spirit of evolving message, I would throw out there that forgiveness was never a primary goal of God’s, and that our Western emphasis on “salvation” place our sin at the center of the God story. It may be time for us to evolve.
God is relationship, he has created us in his image for relationship. Therefore it may stand to reason that in may be wise to place our emphasis on reconciliation and adoption into the family of God. This places relationship at the center of the God story. Relating becomes primary not my sin.
Remember that evolving does not obliterate what came before, rather it morphs it.
Peace, dwight
