Nov
15
2008
The Church at the Heart of Gospel Life
We are not saved individually and then choose to join the church as if it were some club or support group.
Christ died for his people, and we are saved when by faith we become part of the people for whom Christ died.
The story of the Bible is the story of God fulfilling the promise, “I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.”
If the gospel is to be at the heart of church life and mission, it is equally true that the church is to be at the heart of gospel life and mission.
- Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, Total Church, 39.
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