The following is a section from a paper I wrote this summer for a youth ministry course. Craig Van Gelder offers a robustly theological explanation for the nature of the church that gives a glimpse of how exactly God is present through this group of human beings: In this view, the Spirit-created church lives as […]
Craig Van Gelder on Corporate Salvation
Continuing with quotes from Craig Van Gelder’s The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit: Defining salvation in individual terms is biblical, but it is not all that the Bible teaches. The Spirit of God is creating a new community as the body of Christ. While salvation is always individual in its […]
Craig Van Gelder on the Church
I just started reading Craig Van Gelder’s The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit, and I must say I’m really enjoying it so far. Unfortunately, I’m going to put it down for a few weeks as I try and get some reading done for a class coming up in June, but […]