The world is not bad it is just broken!
This changes our thinking from the church as good (white), and world as bad (Black) and compromise as gray.
The Jesus way of thinking is Church as colorful, and the world as black and white or broken.
Look at it this way;
God created us in the garden colorful and whole; body, soul and spirit.
Our body was healthy and naked.
Our Soul was innocent and transparent.
Our Spirit was in communion with God.
We became broken when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good (white) and evil (black).
Our body became sick and covered.
Our soul became corrupt and ashamed.
Our spirit became separated from God.
In a black and white world people are looking for meaning and purpose this is why we have many different religions but also war and greed, etc.
Jesus came to fix what was broken. John 3:16-17
Jesus said the Kingdom of heaven is here He was referring to the relationship of God and man being restored as it was in the garden.
The death and resurrection of Jesus brought the final restoration or redemption for man to be complete and made whole; body, soul and spirit.
Our life is made complete in Christ!
Our identity is no longer in a broken black and white world but in Christ and the colorful world found only by his grace.
Grace makes us free not to live broken again but open to live life to the fullest.
The colorful world is not two dimensional but is a matrix and can only be understood by a relationship with Christ.
The black and white still exist in a colorful matrix. We still struggle with the attacks of the adversary just as Adam and Eve did in the garden tempting us to draw away from the Father.
The Holy Spirit was given to us to empower and lead us in this freedom we have in Christ.
When we see the world not as bad but broken we are able to Impact it with hope as Christ did.
This is the Missio Dei.
