"And I would work to help them see their role as image-bearers in the earth NOW, and the New Heaven and New Earth to come is not powered by the limits of human resources. We were designed to co-labor with God, not just do work for God."
What is being missed here is that "We have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us; and the life we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us." (Galatians 2:20) We do not "co-labor" with God (Romans 3). We're dead. Dead people can't labor. Christ is our life. It is the Holy Spirit that "labors us," as it were, for no one comes to Christ "unless the Father draws them" (John 6:44). The point of Jesus' 44 parables is that the Kingdom of God is being filled by leaps and bounds ("a hundred fold, sixty fold, thirty fold") even though nothing seems to be happening.
"And I would work to help them see their role as image-bearers in the earth NOW, and the New Heaven and New Earth to come is not powered by the limits of human resources. We were designed to co-labor with God, not just do work for God."
What is being missed here is that "We have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us; and the life we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us." (Galatians 2:20) We do not "co-labor" with God (Romans 3). We're dead. Dead people can't labor. Christ is our life. It is the Holy Spirit that "labors us," as it were, for no one comes to Christ "unless the Father draws them" (John 6:44). The point of Jesus' 44 parables is that the Kingdom of God is being filled by leaps and bounds ("a hundred fold, sixty fold, thirty fold") even though nothing seems to be happening.