- A real church longs to know every book of the Bible, to know the One who wrote it, to hear the story the books are telling and to communicate the story of spiritual theology to its people.
-A real church pleads with God's Spirit, the Spirit of holiness, to keep spiritually forming its people until they see Jesus as their supreme treasure no matter how they feel or how others treat them or how their lives are going.
-A real church aims toward spiritual community, where souls connect, where shame weakens, where sin surfaces, where failure meets grace, where irritattions soften, where holy desire grows.
- A real church knows that doing good in this world has little redemptive power unless the do-gooders know Jesus, resemble Jesus, and are relating like Jesus in the energy of Jesus, in their homes and churches first, and then in the culture around them.
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