The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
Philip YanceyWe grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
Philip YanceyGrace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
Philip YanceyJohn Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.
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