As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in Godβs name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?) β¨ FaceBook post byPhilip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016
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