“We are not called primarily to create new structures for the church in this age; we are not called primarily to a program of service, or to dream dreams or have visions. We are called first of all to belong to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and to keep our lives warmed at the hearth of His life. it is there the fire wil be lit which will create new structures and programs of service that will draw others into the circle to dream dreams and have visions.
“To understand this is to be thrown back upon those disciplines that are the only known gateways to the grace of God; for how do we fulfill the command to love, except that we learn it of God, and how do we learn it of God, except that we pray, and live under His word and percieve His world?”
(E. O’Connor, Call to Commitment (1963) 92.)
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