Tuesday, August 30

Transformed in community

To be a community of light from which the light of Christ will emanate we need to be intentional in our relationships — to love the unlovely, forgive the unforgivable, embrace the repulsive, include the awkward, accept the weird. It is in contexts such as these that sinners are transformed into disciples who obey everything King Jesus has commanded.

— Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Total Church
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2008), 113