Keller on Common Grace
January 28, 2008 by KTouchton
Filed under Quotes, Tim Keller
Sin in us keeps us from ever being as good as our right beliefs should make us. And yet the image of God in unbelievers keeps them from ever being as bad as their wrong beliefs should make them. So our differences aren’t as big as you would think they’d be.
- Quoted from his talk “Contextualization, part 1″
what a hot picture of keller.
There is much wisdom in these words, however I wonder in what way is the life of a believer not to look different that an unbeliever as a sign of true faith and repentance? If we have dynamic counter-cultural communities that are restoring the shalom, does that not look drastically different that the world?
Brady,
Yes, I think it would “look drastically different than the world,” but I think keller’s point here is that there isn’t much difference between (individual) believers and unbelievers, in that they are both incomplete in some sense. Maybe the “drastic difference” is most clearly seen between the Community of the Kingdom (restoring the shalom) and the rest of the world, as groups, under a differnt authority.
My question then is, “Why do these counter cultural communities look different than the world except that they are comprised of changed people?”