Embracing grace -5- Holistic Gospel

One of the fundamental "words" or concepts in this book is "holistic." In his opinion and mine (for that matter) our lives cannot be divided up in secular and sacred. I believe God is still involved in the day-to-day events of this world and in my/your life. The gospel, therefore concerns all aspects of our life, society and the whole world. McKnight says:

"We confess that the gospel is the work of God to restore us in the context of a community to God and to others and the world. We need to pause once again to notice how big this claim is: it is something God does for us and to us, and the long term direction of God's embrace, so we are claiming, will benefit the whole world. Somehow, we are suggesting, we are to be a "blessing" to the world."

From this standpoint Embracing grace begins to resolve three fundamental questions: the problem of suffering, the problem of sin, and the problem of systemic evil. In the following chapters McKnight goes into more explanation of these points.
These five posts should give you a good taste of this book, so this will my last post on Embracing Grace. I have enjoying reading it, and recommend it.