Christopher J. H. Wright's The Mission Of God

Christopher J.H Wright delivers an excellent treatment of the scriptures in his book “The mission of God. Following YHWH through the cannon of scripture, he truly captures The Mission of God. Wright’s larger argument is that there is a missional framework through which we can see the entire scriptures. God has been on mission from eternity past to eternity future, and he has woven his people into his story to display his glory. Wright puts on display through scripture the character of God and his mission. He seeks to define who is this God and what does his identity have to do with his mission. Wright further strings his missional hermeneutic through the people of God. How does the nation of Israel and God’s Word that has been entrusted to
As the creation, we are equipped to know our creator, and yet completely dead in our sins, Wright observes about Israel: “The only thing that Israel will do in the whole scenario is they will come to know YHWH conclusively though these events” (Wright, 76) As the reciepents of the covenant with YHWH, Israel has been entrusted with the Word of God to know him and worship him, and bless the nations by making known to them the one true God. Wright says “Because there is none like YHWH, all the nations will eventually come to worship him as the one true God. (PS 86:8-9)” (Wright, 77). In the grand crescendo of this mission of God, Wright reveals that “The God of Israel, whose declared mission was to make himself known to the nations through Israel, now wills to be known to the nations through the messiah, the one who embodies Israel in his own person and fulfills the mission of Israel to the nations.” (Wright, 123) This is an incredible story of God’s great revealing to all the nations that he is the one true God and there is no other. Though God would reveal himself to all nations, Israel had a special role to play in this