Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Orthodoxy of Doctrine and Community

One cannot explain the explosive dynamite, the dunamis, of the early church apart from the fact that they practiced two things simultaneously: orthodoxy of doctrine and orthodoxy of community in the midst of the visible church, a community which the world can see. By the grace of God, therefore, the church must be known simultaneously for its purity of doctrine and the reality of its community.
- Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

(HT:  CJ)

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