Carrying on the Work

The Church enters into and exercises the servant character and ministry of Christ by identification with, involvement in, and service to the world in the name of Christ. "The Church" says Lewis Smedes, "is Jesus Christ bodily present, bodily committed to, and bodily immersed in the ghetto of human history. The Church, His body, still carries on the work of reconciliation. And it is vulnerable, open to wounds, because it, with Him, is still part of the ghetto. (The Reformed Journal, January 1969)