Although this book is a lot of theory thus far (70 pages in), and one of the broadest scopes I’ve read on movements like the emerging, missional, mosaic and monastic streams of the church. It’s a lot of material, but this point, which affects us all, is new to me. It truly illuminates some of the things that we are blind to as a pop-media driven culture:
Not only does this imperial global economy claim to define what is ultimate, I believe it is increasingly colonizing the imaginations of peoples all over our planet to buy in to its notions of what constitutes the good life and better future. No wonder that many of Islamic faith are concerned. And we should be too.
While our Christian faith fully embraces the material and economic world, we know that for those working from a Christian worldview, the ultimate is never defined primarily in economic terms. We affirm that the ultimate will only be found in a different reality and a different dream for the global future, defined by the restoration of our relationship to the creator God. It is a dream in which he ultimate is found in seeing broken lives restored. It is a dream in which justice finally comes for the poor, wholeness for God’s good creation and shalom for the nations.
The New Conspirators: Creating The Future One Mustard Seed At A Time by Tom Swine (pg. 69)
