More thoughts on church...

N.T. Wright writes about the church... "The method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom.  The kingdom will come as the church, energized by the Spirit, goes itno the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always as Paul put it in one of his letters - bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed."