Redemption is not the destination — it is the road back
AFTER DEVERN FROMKE
THE PARADIGM SHIFT
MAN-CENTRED VIEW
God created man
Man sinned
God redeemed man
Man goes to heaven
Redemption is the goal. The story is about us.
GOD-CENTRED VIEW
God purposed a Bride
He created man as a vessel
Man deviated
The cross restored the path
God continues toward His goal
Redemption is remedial. The story is about Him.
THE TWO LINES
GOD'S INTENTION
MAN'S DEVIATION
THE ANALOGY
A father plans to take his son to a grand celebration.
On the way, the boy runs off the path and falls into mud.
The father cleans him up — but the cleaning is not the celebration.
It is what was necessary to get back on the road to the celebration.
Much Christian teaching stops at the cleaning and never mentions the celebration.
WHERE MUCH TEACHING STOPS
Much Christian teaching is centred on the cross — endlessly focused on forgiveness, redemption, and what God has done for us. This is glorious and necessary. But it is not the goal.
The cross brings us back to the path. But the path was heading somewhere before the fall — and it is still heading there after the cross.
Fromke's challenge: move beyond the remedial and into the ultimate.
"It is imperative that we direct every believer to develop a truly God-centred philosophy of life — this means we must see all things as properly related to God and His ultimate intention."