Sublime

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

The only thing that makes the church endurable is that somehow it is the body of Christ, and on this we are fed.”7

Many Christians and non-Christians experience the presence of evil but do not have the categories to evaluate the experience, let alone be set free from their presence.

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

It is this voice and this truth that is the way that challenges ‘the present age’, Kierkegaard’s and our own – where being a Christian has at times come to mean little more than the common human (‘a good person’) – where Christianity is one of many ‘equally valid’ ways, universal common human values mixed with, at best, colourful and, at worst, vio