George was a fast talking American but he
allowed so many questions during the talk that it was very hard for him to get
any momentum going, however these questions were fascinating because he was
clearly rattling a few cages and Greenbelt’s “so bloody nice” mask was falling
off a bit – great sport! His point, as far as I understood it, was that
“mission” is often fundamentally flawed because it depends on establishing and
policing the category “unsaved” and human rights campaigns are similarly flawed
by the establishment of the category “oppressed”. This links into the revelation of Dave
Tomlinson that there are spiritual people outside the Church – to decide that
someone is in need of salvation is to deny the works God is already doing in
their lives, it is an act of violence to see their salvation in terms of a
process of transformation from “them” into “us”. He is a Greenbelt
speaker who’s book I will seek out to read to see if without the heckling his
argument is attractive.
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