Rescue the Perishing
The Life, ministry, and death of Jesus, consummated in his exaltation / resurrection, were the incarnation, in a unique and definitive way, of God’s saving purposes for all creation. Through the particular and individual, God did something that brought to a climax what God had been doing from the beginning of history: communicating God’s self to and in history in a process that itself was a history. The Christ-event, considered as the foundational event of the Church in history, was a beginning as well as a climax. Since the outpouring of the Spirit and the emergence of the Church, there has been a divinely originated witness to Christ’s eschatological victory over the power of sin and a divinely originated continuation of Christ’s saving presence in history.
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