Rub It In
Theme of the Week: To the Frontlines with Faith
Bob Briner
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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Key Bible Verse: "The Kingdom of God … is like yeast [that] permeated every part of the dough" (Luke 13:20-21). Bonus Reading:1 Corinthians 9:19b-23
Keeping Christ bottled up in the churches is keeping salt in the shakers. Salt must penetrate the meat to preserve it.
Being salt isn't nearly so much about having more pastors and missionaries as it is about having many more Christian laymen thinking strategically about and acting on ways to build the kingdom in such areas as public policy, advertising, media, higher education, entertainment, the arts, and sports. They must penetrate key areas of culture to have a preserving effect.
That doesn't mean standing outside and lobbing hand grenades of criticism over the wall. It means being inside through competence and talent, offering scripturally based alternatives to what is corrupting and evil. When Christians carp and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes and snickers. Only if we offer a "more excellent way" do we command or deserve attention.
I'm calling for a radically different way of thinking about our world. Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. Instead of hanging around the fringes of our culture, we need to be smack dab in the middle of it.
—Bob Briner in Roaring Lambs
My Response: A believer I know who wields respected influence with his colleagues is …
Thought to Apply: The world we confront is aggressively pagan. The only adequate answer is for Christians to recover the New Testament power of spiritual aggression.—KARL BARTH (Swiss theologian)
Adapted from Roaring Lambs (Zondervan, 1993) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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