“I Am the Church”

Posted on by under A. W. Tozer

We must not think of the Church as an anonymous body, a mystical religious abstraction.  We Christians are the Church and whatever we do is what the Church is doing.  The matter, therefore, is for each of us a personal one.  Any forward step in the Church must begin with the individual.

A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HaperOne, 1961), 114.

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Worship Is Our Identity

Posted on by under Paul Tripp

Remember that, by God’s design, we’re worshipers.  Worship isn’t first an activity; worship is first our identity.  That means everything you and I do and say is the product of worship.  So the treasures (things that have risen to levels of importance in our hearts) that rule the thoughts and desires of our hearts will then control the things that we do.

Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 101.

This One Thing I Do

Posted on by under Alexander Maclaren

Remember that Christ’s commandment no to be conformed to the world is the consequence of His commandment to be conformed to Himself.  ‘Thus did I not’ comes second; ‘this one thing I do’ comes first.  You will misunderstand the whole genius of the Gospel if you suppose that, as a law of life, it is perpetually pulling men short up, and saying: Don’t, don’t, don’t!  There is a Christianity of that sort which is mainly prohibition and restriction, but it is not Christ’s Christianity.  He begins by  enjoining: ‘This do in remembrance of me,’ and the man that has accepted that commandment must necessarily say, as he looks out on the world, and its practices: ‘So did I not because of the fear of God.’

Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977), 369.

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