God’s BHAG and a Bigger and Better Gospel: Trinity and Incarnation
Jesus, God in human flesh, is the ultimate expression of God’s BHAG – his B ig H airy A udacious G oal. Such a goal is “ clear and compelling and serves as a unifying focal point of effort” that engages people in their “innards” and is “tangible, energizing, highly focused. People ‘get it’ right away; it takes little or no explanation” (Collins, https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/BHAG.html). The thing God wanted from forever, the divine BHAG, is for God and humanity to live together in friendship and love on this world he created for it. God desired this so much, to be so close to us, as close as he could possibly be, in fact, that he decided to become one of us! His coming as one of us was always God’s plan. That was enormously complicated after humanity sinned and rejected friendship with him, to be sure. It now included the necessity to deal with sin and its effects in order to reclaim and restore humanity and creation to God’s intention for them. Do yo...