The start of this new year provides an opportunity for reflection and resolution on the impact of the gospel on our society.
There is a general malaise which many people feel today, due to the erosion of the values of trust and honesty in our culture, which can provide us with the possibility to build a bridge of relevance for the gospel to travel across.
Residual image of God
The reason we instinctively know that there should be a better world and that we should be better people is because of the residual image of God within us, in which we were made. Marred by sin and distorted by unbelief as all human beings are, yet we cannot escape the reality which Augustine spoke of, that because we were made for God, our hearts will always be restless until they find their rest in him. The vacuum within each human life is not amorphous; it is God-shaped.
