Steve McCormick on “An Evangelical Social Gospel?”

Steve McCormick on “An Evangelical Social Gospel?” May 22, 2011

“Every once in a while, as we journey in faith, we will discover the kind of guide who not only helps us find our way, but our voice. Tim Suttle has not only found his way further into God’s Kingdom, but he has discovered his own voice by rediscovering a like-minded pastor, theologian, and fellow traveler, in Walter Rauschenbusch. Today, in the footsteps of Rauschenbusch, Tim has found a way to ‘reconnect’ the personal nature of the Gospel that has become unhinged from the Gospel’s corporate and communal nature in the Church of Jesus Christ. Every page of this book burns with the fervent love of God, and immediately, one begins to hear in the infectious words of a compassionate pastor, the unswerving conviction of a prophet, beckoning the whole ‘people of God,’ and not just the wandering individuals of the Church with their private experience(s) of grace, to join together in the transforming power of God’s mission to reconcile the whole world. After all, says Tim, “the nexus of the personal and corporate is where all the power is.” Yes, a recovery of the Gospel is underway in the Church because these two faithful pastors and prophetic voices have already seen ahead of the rest of us, and now, they are calling the Church to ‘run further up and further in’ the Kingdom of God.”

K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary

Thanks Dr. McCormick for your friendship & support in this project.

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