Quote of the Week
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Jun 21, 2021: The Culture of Jesus
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. -
Jun 14, 2021: Incarnational Church
The church is . . . a kind of continuation of the presence of Jesus in the world. Jesus is not only seated at the right hand of the Father, but is visibly and tangibly present in and to the world through the church. This is an incarnational understanding of the church. It is a unique community of people in the world, a community like no other community because it is the presence of the divine in and to the world.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 70. -
June 7, 2021: The Cosmic Redeemer
The early church saw how faith centers in Christ. . . . Christ became one of us in order to destroy the power of evil and restore us and the world to God . . . . God in Christ is the cosmic redeemer.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 66-67. -
May 31, 2021: Centrality of Christ
The centrality of Christ to the entire created order is never merely a reasoned argument, but always a matter of faith expressed in the worship of the church . . . . This is the faith of the church, its story, its basic paradigm through which it views all reality.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 62-63. -
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