Martin Luther (in his Larger Catechism, 1529) said he felt sad for those who follow faiths other than Christianity. Even though they might worship the one, true God, they had no way of knowing God’s attitude toward them. “They cannot be confident of his love and blessing,”¦” because they do not know God Incarnate. The Incarnation not only tells us who God is but also God’s intentions for us.
I asked a distinguished new church planter what virtue he most admired in a potential new church planter.
“A robust theology of the Incarnation,” he replied. “Only someone who believes that God is relentlessly reaching out to save the world has the drive to birth a new church.”
Read it all (emphasis mine).