The power of the gospel creates somethiong altogether different from the world today. It creates churches that, to borrow from John Piper, are God-exalting, Christ admiring, Spirit-filled, Bible-enjoying, grace-preaching, convenience-defying, cross-embracing, risk-taking, selfishness-crucifying, gossip-silencing, prayer-saturated, future-thinking, outward-reaching and beautifully human congregations where the undeserving can thrive.
Ray Ortlund
From the book “The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches Book 5)”