" The Church's good news is that human community is possible; the Church's challenge is in its insistence that this possibility is realized only in that giving away of power in order to nurture authority in others that is learned in the giving away of God in Jesus, and its further insistence that the relations constituting Christ's body neither compete with nor vindicate others, but simply stand in their own right as the context which relativizes all others....
The Church's primitive and angular seperateness, the Church as envisaged in the gospels and as it existed in many areas of the early Christian world, is meant to be a protest on behalf of a unified world, the world that holds together in and because of Jesus Christ"
Williams On Christian Theology 233
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These are just empty words. Without a clear cut commitment to the Bible, the future of Williams' Christianity is in the impotence clinic.
Check out today's incendiary ruminations:
http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/09/18/building-cages-out-of-freedom/
Yeah, maybe. Although maybe it also explains his stance on his own authority in the church.
Good point.
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