Staggeringly Comprehensive Good News

In society we often hear parts of stories and messages that are not comprehensive. Christopher J.H. Wright points out the importance of believing, living, and communicating the whole Christian message which is staggeringly comprehensive good news.

Wrights states,

"The great Christ-centered, Cross-centered redemptive truths of the NewTestament do not nullify, but rather complete, all that the Old Testament reveals about God's comprehensive commitment to the wholeness of human life, God's relentless opposition to all that oppresses, spoils, and diminishes human well-being, and God's ultimate mission of blessing the nations, destroying all forms of evil, and redeeming his whole creation, for his own supreme glory in Christ

The gospel as a whole, true to the Bible as a whole, shows us God's heart for his broken, suffering, wicked world. For the last and the least (socially, culturally, and economically) as well as the lost (spiritually)—not that these can be separated, since human beings are whole persons. For those who are dying eternally in their sins, but also for the causes of their preventably premature dying in this world. For those who are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world, but who also suffer all kinds of other lacks—the landless and homeless, the loveless and limbless, the family-less and state-less. For the creation itself, frustrated in its supreme goal of giving glory to its Creator, and groaning under the onslaught of human greed and violence."

Check out the entire article Whole Gospel, Whole Church, Whole World over at the Global Conversation.