History Tells Us Again and Again
Lesslie Newbigin, a Church of Scotland missionary to India, tells us what gospel mission is all about:
"The logic of mission is this: the true meaning of the homo story has been disclosed. Because it is the truth, it must exist shared universally. It cannot be private opinion. When nosotros share it will all peoples, we give them the opportunity to know the truth about themselves, to know who they are because they can know the true story of which their lives are a part.
Wherever the gospel is preached the question of the pregnant of the human story–the universal story and the personal story of each human being–is posed. Thereafter the situation tin can never exist the same. It can never revert to the old harmonies, the one-time securities, the old static or cyclical patterns of the past. Now decisions have to be made for or confronting Christ, for Christ as the clue to history or for some other inkling.
At that place will always be the temptation, fifty-fifty for those within the Christian customs, to find the clue in the success of some project of our ain, to see our program (whether of church growth or of human evolution) equally the success story which is going to give meaning to our lives.
The gospel calls us back again and again to the real inkling, the crucified and risen Jesus, and so that we acquire that the meaning of history is not immanent in history itself, that history cannot observe its meaning at the end of a process of development, simply that history is given its pregnant by what God has done in Jesus Christ and by what He has promised to practice; and that the true horizon is not at the successful cease of our projects merely in His coming to reign."
from Newbigin's The Gospel in a Pluralist Guild (1989), 125.
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Source: https://blogs.blueletterbible.org/blb/2011/03/14/lesslienewbigin/
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