Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
Throughout these essays on digital media, three predicaments show up repeatedly: false digital discipleship, disembodied community, and the decay of contemplation.
If not for the Lord being on your side, you’d be completely without hope. And yet, the Lord is on your side. For whatever he brings against you, more still does he give to your defense.
The ultimate basis of your hope of making it to the end secure in Christ is not your own resolve, seriousness, or moral character but the finished work of Christ and all of God’s promises in him.
When the days are long and the nights are short, God is not absent.
When Peter refers to us as a royal priesthood, he’s speaking corporately. The church is a royal priesthood.
My call at church was not to soldier on as if nothing was wrong. It was to pastor the church in my weakness so that Christ’s grace would be magnified.
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?