Friday, July 3, 2009

The Christian Church

“In the midst of the world there is the Christian Church, the pledged followers of Jesus Christ, filled with Christ’s own Spirit; the family and the community, not of those who are perfect, not always of those who are very good specimens of holiness, but of men and women and children who, by being pledged to Jesus crucified and risen, are being put into the way of being made holy, put into the discipline of that cleansing and sanctifying and perfecting which is the restoration of the true divine life in humanity.”

 The Most Rev. A. Michael Ramsey

Archbishop of Canterbury