Proclaimer Blog
Online magazines
Two of our favourite online journals have new issues out and are worth checking out.
- The new edition of Credo is about mission and reads like an old fashioned missionary mag. I love it. A particularly moving article about Spain and the need there (so close to home), plus some good book reviews. Nicely presented too.
- The latest 9 marks journal is all about conversion and I read some really helpful stuff here. A really good (although short) article about the corporate nature of conversion and another on why putting belonging before believing is so dangerous. Both must reads. Here's an excerpt from the first article:
There can be no true reconciliation between humans until individual sinners first reconcile with God. The horizontal necessarily follows the vertical. Ecclesiology necessarily follows soteriology. Which is to say, the corporate element must not come first, lest we lose the whole thing. But it must come. Indeed, the corporate component must remain within the structure of the doctrine of conversion itself. Our corporate unity in Christ is not just an implication of conversion, it’s part of the very thing. Being reconciled to God’s people is distinct from but inseparable from being reconciled to God.