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The mission of Jesus is healing justice, [and] the ending of disease, dislocation, and oppression... if this is Jesus' vision, and atonement is one way of speaking of what God's redemptive work in the world is designed to accomplish, then the creation of a community where God's will is done is inherent to the meaning of atonement. Any discussion of atonement apart from discussion of the kingdom fails to do justice to the biblical framing of God's redemptive work in the world.
Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement
