Where evangelistic dialogue begins

It will be a major part of the work of such congregations to train and enable members to act as agents of the Kingdom in the various sectors of public life where they work. This king of 'frontier work' is very difficult . . . . It must become part of ordinary congregational life that members are enabled to think through and discuss the ways in which their Christian faith impinges their daily life in their secular work. Here is the place where the real interface between the Church and the world, the new creation and the old, takes place. Here is where there ought to be a discernible difference in behavior between those who live by the old story and those who live by the story the Bible tells. It ought at many points to lead to differences in behavior, to dissent from current practice, to questioning. And this, of course, will be the place where the counter questions arise. The Christian will be asked, 'Why do you do this? Why do you behave like this?' Here is where the true evangelistic dialogue begins. (Weston, Paul. ed. "Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian." Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 2006 p235)

O how I want the way I act as a father to dissent from current practice! I view this blog as a sort of 'frontier work' of thinking through and discussing with others the ways that the reign of Christ over all things transforms the ways that we love our children in order that we may proclaim the gospel with words.