Download PDF by Andy Johnson: Holiness and the Missio Dei

In Holiness and the Missio Dei, Andy Johnson takes the reader on a biblical trip that explores the query of what holiness or sanctification has to do with God's venture on this planet. He refuses to relegate the belief of people changing into holy to the world of person inward piety or legalism, at the one hand, or to the area of the very unlikely sooner than Christ's go back, at the different. utilizing a missional lens to lead the reader right into a theological engagement with Scripture, Johnson argues that God's fundamental technique of making us holy is thru our participation in his saving, reconciling challenge to convey production to its meant future. As we develop into and stay a part of an ecclesia, we're corporately and individually formed by way of the Spirit into a dead ringer for the cruciform Son via participation within the missio Dei, and thereby are being restored into identical to the holy God--the imago Dei.

This publication is written basically for church leaders, for college kids, and for teachers who're drawn to missional readings of Scripture. it's going to problem those that learn it to re-articulate the church's turning into holy as being inseparably attached to its energetic participation in God's challenge.

"Andy Johnson has written a theologically wealthy learn of God's reasons for embodied holiness, tracing the development of this holiness in the course of the biblical narrative of the missio Dei from construction to eschaton. alongside the way in which, he is taking 'soundings' within the previous testomony, makes a speciality of the revelatory occasion of the incarnation, and sketches the improvement of 'contagious groups' of shalom within the New testomony. Johnson helpfully explores the biblical roots of a vital theological subject matter with sensitivity and intensity, to the advantage of the modern church."
--J. Richard Middleton, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College

"In a cultural context of conquest and gear, the folks of God reside oddly as fans of the crucified Jesus. Andy Johnson compellingly reminds us of our calling. The challenge of God is unachievable except the way in which of Jesus. it truly is excessive time we embraced this."
--Dan Boone, President, Trevecca Nazarene University

"In this welcome quantity, Andy Johnson presents a careful exegetical and theological examination of holiness within the biblical witness that demonstrates its inseparable relationship to participation within the venture of God. It also provides a compelling example of the form and perform of a missional examining of Scripture. an incredible addition to the literature on missional theology and hermeneutics."
--John R. Franke, Theologian in place of abode, moment Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis; basic Coordinator of the Gospel and Our tradition Network

"Today, 'mission' is in, 'holiness' out. Andy Johnson demonstrates no longer basically that holiness and project should be associated jointly, yet that the biblical tale from Genesis to Revelation finds how they're and has to be connected--and in dazzling methods. This hugely perceptive but available booklet is a wealthy banquet, a must-read for all scholars, ministry practitioners, and lecturers eager about the church's participation in God's mission."
--Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary's Seminary & collage, Baltimore, MD

Andy Johnson is Professor of recent testomony at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas urban, Missouri. he's the writer of 1 & 2 Thessalonians within the Horizons New testomony statement sequence (2016) and coeditor of Holiness and Ecclesiology within the New Testament (2007).