Quote of the Day

…real godly change—real sanctification—requires a people to live together in covenantal relationships, and we’re less inclined to that than any generation in human history.

More than any before us, an American today believes “I must write the script of my own life.” The thought that such a script must be subordinated to the grand narrative of the Bible is a foreign one. Still more alarming is the idea that this surrender of our personal story to God’s story must be mediated by a community of fallen people we frankly don’t want getting in our way and meddling with our own hopes and dreams.

And in a culture that tells us to march on with ever greater self-reliance and self-expression, the Bible tells us that that the story of our life is not our own, and our journey is not our own. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and his people come along with us (or, to put it a little more accurately, we go along with them). And along that journey, a God who is inherently community changes our human community into his image. [Tod E. Bolsinger, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian (Brazos Press, 2004), p. 22-23]