Christians must recover the primacy of being a Christian community. . . . The primary question we must ask is, “What does it mean to be a citizen of the local and global church? . . . All Christians are members of the church before they are members of an American, African, Asian, Spanish, or any other culture. For the church transcends all the cultures of the world and defines all believers as the culture of the presence of Jesus Christ in and to the world.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 71.
