…A deeply missional impulse calls us to inhabit eternity. We want to avoid forever gazing at a historical golden age of gospel advancement (“oh man, to be a Christian in Hawaii back then”). We also want to avoid an idolatrous futuristic outlook (“once this happens [insert blank] then we’ll truly be [insert blank] and missionally effective”). We want, thirdly, to avoid a social-clubbishness that comes from focusing only on the immediate contexts in which we live (“these are the golden days” or “we’ve arrived”)…
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