"We want the fruit of the early church but not the context of suffering and demand that produced such fruit. How American. How selfish. How consumptive. How anemic."
"Everything we discover about what Jesus did and said within the Judaism of his day must be thought through in terms of what it would look like for the church to do and be this for the world."
"The early church never saw itself as a collection of individuals gathering to pursue their own individual spiritual programs for growth....They existed as a subversive counterculture in the midst of the global military superpower of Rome."
"From the very beginning Christianity was not primarily a `doctrine', but exactly a `community.'"
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