This is a wonderful lecture!
Two great quotes. On the centrality of how we see "the gospel" and salvation. He has just been speaking about salvation being an invitation to enter the Kingdom of God here and now:
"Are we preaching a gospel that has a natural tendency to produce disciples or do we simply preach a gospel that generates consumers of religious goods and services. A gospel of mere forgiveness does not produce disciples. … We are now wedded to a gospel that does not produce disciples in any regular connection and that's how we get a culture of Christians who are not disciples. And that's where we are today. And if we're going to deal seriously with this issue of taking theology and spiritual disciplines into the workplace we have to recognize where the problem is. And the problem is, what we get by grace through the gospel does not extend to the workplace. There's no conceptual connection between being saved, as that is commonly understood, and taking our workplace for Christ." Minute 36
What is discipleship?
"I'm learning from him [Jesus] how to lead my life in the Kingdom of God as he would lead my life if he were I." Minute 37:50
Also:
"The church is for discipleship but discipleship is for the world, the world under God." 58:30
"Salvation is participating in the life that Jesus is now living on earth." 58:50
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