Friday, December 12
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989), 153
The wind blows freely
It happens over and over again that the gospel ‘comes alive’ in a way that the evangelist had never dreamed of, and has effects which he never anticipated. The gospel is addressed to the human person as a human person in all the uncountable varieties of predicaments in which human beings find themselves.
The gospel has a sovereignty of its own and is never an instrument in the hands of the evangelist. Or, to put it more truly, the Holy Spirit, by whose secret working alone the gospel ‘comes alive,’ is not under the evangelist’s control. The wind blow freely.
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989), 153