Saturday, June 23, 2007

In God's company - What is the church?

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=3424

[The Christian Century] 23 June 2007--Breathing the air of Christ—Christ becoming the "atmosphere" in which we live, to borrow the language of a great New Testament scholar, C. F. D. Moule—isn't only about being in a state of peace but about being in what some would call a "dynamic equilibrium." Our peace is what it is because it is a flow of unbroken activity, the constant maintenance of relation and growth as we give into each other's lives and receive from each other, so that we advance in trust and confidence with one another and God. So it is that when the creed moves us on to speak about believing in the Holy Spirit, it also moves us on to speak about our confidence, our trust in the church.

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