The Church's Primary Task

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Today's quote from John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus on the church seems pertinent in a season where everyone seems to be running around trying to make the church bigger when the primary task is that it lives unfettered by consumerist notions of what is successful.

"The very existence of the church is her primary task. It is in itself a proclamation of the Lordship of Christ to the powers from whose dominion the church has begun to be liberated. The church does not attack the powers; this Christ has done. The church concentrates upon not being seduced by them."