Author Archives: Matt Jury

An Embassy of Heaven

Posted on by under Steve Timmis, Tim Chester

The church is not something additional or optional. It is at the very heart of God’s purposes. Jesus came to create a people who would model what it means to live under His rule. It would be a glorious outpost of the kingdom of God, an embassy of heaven. This is where the world can see what it truly means to be human. Our identity as human beings is found in community. Our identity as Christians is found in Christ’s new community, and our mission takes place through communities of light.

Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, Total Church, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 50

Are You Ready?

Posted on by under A. W. Tozer

God is getting His people ready for another world, and He uses the local church as a workshop in which to carry on His blessed work.

A. W. Tozer, The Set of the Sail, p. 23

The Moral Emergency Answered by the Bible

Posted on by under A. W. Tozer

The Bible was called forth by the moral emergency occasioned by the fall of man. It is the voice of God calling men home from the wilds of sin; it is a road map for returning prodigals; it is instruction in righteousness, light in darkness, information about God and man and life and death and heaven and hell. In it God warns, commands, rebukes, promises, encourages. In it he offers salvation and life through His Eternal Son. And the destiny of each one depends upon the response he or she makes to the voice of the Word.

A. W. Tozer, The Set of the Sail, p. 166