It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives by Tod E. Bolsinger

Author:Tod E. Bolsinger [Bolsinger, Tod E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781585585229
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2004-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

They who have been called “holy” by divine imputation now gradually become holy through transformation. The story and the Spirit who inspired the story, when heard and heeded, transform.

Miroslav Volf reminds us that for stories to truly transform, they must be far more than just content communicated, even the content of the divine love of the Father in Jesus, and must include the personal and experiential way in which that content is communicated.

Think of the stories at bedside and the radiance of a face reflecting the love of Christ, words of admonition and the silent holding of the hand of a person in pain, eating and drinking the bread and wine, worship of the one true God, holiness and failure, manipulation and sword, the blood of the martyrs, the lives of the saints, hypocrisy and lust for power among church dignitaries and the rest of us, and economic interests and political machinations.[39]

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