Quote of the Day

God’s divine intention is not, as we so often declare, to save people from their sins. At least it’s not the ultimate intention. God’s purpose in election is that we’ll become like Christ. And not just you or me, but all of us, so that Christ might be the firstborn within a large family. The purpose of election is to have a whole family of the human family look like our big brother (who looks like our heavenly Father). God’s intention from the beginning of time was that every human would look, in character, like Jesus.

This being the case, the divine intention for our churches is to be a community of conformity, transforming all people into the image of Christ. Tod E. Bolsinger, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian (Brazos Press, 2004), p. 45