Quote of the Week
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Sep 13, 2021: God’s Presence in the World
The notion that communication best occurs through participation invites us to experience the church and to be interpreted by its meaning not as an abstract idea, but as a present reality. This approach to the church as a “metaphysical presence” is the strongest kind of apologetic to the reality of God in a postmodern world.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 91. -
Sep 6, 2021: Unity and the Story
A community of people who allow themselves to be interpreted by God’s saving event in Jesus Christ and become formed as a true and living example of a local and universal oneness will speak volumes to the world about the saving Christ who dwells within them.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 90. -
Aug 30, 2021: The Whole Church
The whole body of Christ shares in the apostolic faith, handed down in the life of the church through the centuries. . . . I once believed that the church became apostate at the close of the first century and hadn’t emerged again until the Reformation. . . . This attitude results in a negative view of the early church fathers and Christianity prior to the Reformation. The fact is that God’s church has existed from the Pentecost described in Acts. We belong to the whole church and need, for our own spiritual health, to affirm every part of it.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 88-89. -
Aug 23, 2021: The Church is Apostolic
The concept of apostolicity indicates that the church is intimately linked to and built on the past. . . . Evangelicals can stand with Catholics and Orthodox in the affirmation of the apostolic tradition as summarized in the rule of faith, the Apostle’s Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Chalcedon Creed. We can affirm that the work of the church is to “hand down” this apostolic tradition. . . . The church is a community of faithful Christians, all of whom stand in apostolic succession in the broadest sense of the term. The church, in other words, hands down the church. . . . What we have in common with each other is a Christianity rooted in the apostolic tradition.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 87-88. -
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