CHURCH PURPOSE & PROGRAMS
We are to be the church against the world, for the world, to borrow a phrase from the Hartford Declaration. We need more emphasis on BEING as opposed to doing. One major mistake churches make–mainline and evangelical–is to rush out and do projects. But before you can do anything you have to BE something. And we have to be the community of character in the midst of the sea of mendacity, as Richard John Neuhaus puts it. We have to be the community of light in the darkness. Charles Colson in Christianity Today, November 23, 1992, pg. 30
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