The work of Jesus was not a new set of ideals or principles for
reforming or even revolutionizing society, but the establishment of a
new community, a people that embodied forgiveness, sharing, and
self-sacrificing love in its rituals and discipline. In that sense, the
visible church is not to be the bearer of Christ's message, but to be
the message.
Peter Steinfels
On John Howard Yoder, qtd. in The New Christians
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