The church is a community of love where the personal presence of Jesus Christ is known and where his love masters the community and builds it into a genuine unity. Normal human communities are characterized by a clearly defined restriction on membership, by a definite limitation on the commitment required of its members, and by demands which are quite explicit and acceptable to those who join. In God's church, men and women are called to go beyond this and to find intimate community with people who are incredibly different, with whom they have no natural human homogeneity, and who they usually would have no other occasion to know.
George W. Webber, The Congregation in Mission, 1964
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