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Radical Salvationism
by Commissioner Wesley Harris

 

WORDS may sometimes be manipulated to mean what we want them to signify rather than what is their essential connotation.  Take the word “radical” for example.  Some may interpret it to indicate a wild eyed extremist intent on getting rid of anything that has been accepted as normal. But the Oxford Dictionary –   a “bible” for many users of the English language -  defines the word as “of the root, naturally inherent, essential, fundamental” and in that case this long time Salvationist would say, “bring it on”.

 

What is radical may seem to be different but is essentially in line with what was original, of the essence of  what was intended, but perhaps lost in time. A stiff dose of history may be called for and, through the years, that has been provided through the language of priorities employed in the “Journal of Aggressive Christianity.”

 

The Army began as an expression of radical Christianity.  It was about saving and serving the lost.  That was the burning passion of our founders and literally, God help us, if we have cooled off in our motivation. We are called to be people people.  Every Corps exists for those who don’t belong to it as well as those who do. The people in our neighbourhood are not merely our “clients”; they are the reason for our existence!

 

Many of our Corps are very busy doing this and that but sometimes we may need a reality check and should ask ourselves what we are all about and what are the results. This kind of check may be disconcerting for us as individuals and as an Army but it could well bring on growing pains and growth itself.

 

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

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