Christ and the church cannot be separated from each other, for they are intrinsically linked. The emphasis is not so much on the church as an institution or a denomination, but on the church as the people, that community of people created by God in whom and through whom Christ is present in the world. . . . The most significant witness in the world will emanate from the church as the embodied presence of God on earth.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 81-82.
