When you look into a mirror do you see a child of God called very good?
One of the critical distinctions I make in my book, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity, is that the problem God is solving in the mission of God is our capacity to lose site of how God sees us. The problem is in essence our capacity to construct a judgment that is different from God’s. The problem God is solving is actually inside of us. Can we do something to lose the love of God? Can we change what is true?
I make a strong contention in my book that we can’t really participate with God in mission unless we know what problem God is actually solving. And if we spend all of our time thinking the problem is God’s lack of capacity to deal with our negative actions, or what we would historically call sin, we’ll spend all of our time trying to appease God. Yet if the story seems to show anything, it is God’s infinite capacity to overcome our sin and show mercy.
How would you answer the question above?
