In Times Like These: God's Occasional Reconfiguration of His Church

Does God sometimes unravel the ordinary recognizable form of the Church in times of great suffering, weakness, or judgment in order to re-weave her strands into a new form? Is this because the Church derives her form from the Lord Jesus Christ--the Christ of history, that is, of suffering to glory, humiliation to exaltation, obedience to life? What would we do if we believed this? What should we do . . . now?There are times in the Church’s life, informed by the story of Israel and ultimately ...