From my experience in mission, one of the bigger gaps I observe in the discipleship of the younger generation of Mexican university students is their incapacity to deal with the pain in their lives, and of course, the suffering that surrounds them. However, they are not entirely to blame, as this reflects the reality of evangelical churches in Mexico, in which doubting, questioning the faith and asking hard questions is not encouraged and sometimes condemned. As Soong-Chan Rah mentions in his book, Prophetic Lament, an important part of this deficiency is connected to a dispensation eschatology which leads to a rejection of current society and does not encourage any engagement with the city and its troubles. [1] The problem with this theology, which has been exported from the United States, is it does not have a holistic understanding of the gospel, reducing salvation to the afterlife. Under this perspective, the effort to live fully under God’s kingdom values and striving to follow ...
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