How do we assess the activity of our churches in a post-christendom environment?
How do we go about motivating the church for mission?
What do we call a successfu church and what do we call an unsuccessful church?
How do we think of being a parish church, for everyone in the parish, when so many have no interest in the church?
In "Remembering as a moral task", Hauerwas opposes simple universalism based on a common humanity
"Our Universalism is not based on assumed commonalities of humankind; rather, it is based on the belief that the God who made us his own through Jesus Christ is the God of all people." 'Hauerwas Reader' 344
"What does it mean for the church to be an eschatological community whose primary task is not to make the world the kingdom, but rather to witness to the power of God to transform our lives more nearly appropriate to the service of that kingdom....." 346
"The task of the church is not to survive, but to be faithful to its eschatological mission. The "success" of that mission is not measured by whether the church survives or not, but whether her survival or nonsurvival serves the ends of that kingdom. Any time Christians presume that the "success" of God's kingdom depends on the "success" of the Church they have already betrayed their beleif in God's lordship of history" 346
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