"The basic purpose of a church, of course, is to inspire us to live the law of God. But the early Christians also drew great earthly comfort and courage from one another as a group, and from their church as an institution, as they were pursued and tortured for their faith. We no longer need our fellow church members to warn us of physical danger (except possibly in totalitarian countries) but our lives in other respects have not changed entirely."
Good Reading Rack Service, 1956
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