Monday, September 30, 2013

Revisiting the “Whole Gospel”: Toward a Biblical Model of Holistic Mission in the 21st Century

Review of Jean-Paul Heldt's article


I wanted to share some thoughts about an article I recently read by Jean-Paul Heldt, Revisiting the “Whole Gospel”:  Toward a Biblical Model of Holistic Mission in the 21st Century.  Heldt introduces a statement by Speer, “evangelization is nothing less than the good news in action.  Thus, mission is generally bound up with the message of salvation, and so in order to understand the nature of mission we need to come to terms with the terminology of salvation.