Lord, we need Your church in a big way...
“Because evangelicals articulate salvation in such individualistic terms and because modern science and individual reason carry such authority for evangelicals, we do not need the body of Christ for daily victorious Christian existence. In some ways, frankly, we can do without it. We don't need the church to live salvation because we have personal salvation augmented by reason, science, and immediate (charismatic) experience. The church is left with nothing else to do but distribute information, goods, and services to individual Christians. And so, for evangelicals, the church in essence is left to be a sideshow of what God is doing for, in and through individuals. Because of our modernism, we no longer have a need for the church to be the social manifestation of his lordship where he reigns over the powers of sin, evil, death, the prolepsis, the very inbreaking of the kingdom of God.”
From The Great Giveaway by David E. Fitch
G. Mark Sumpter
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