“Often we need to be shocked into an awareness of the motives that really shape our thoughts and actions, and we must respond to these revelations by pleading for the mercy that will allow us to repair our ways. All of this must happen in contexts where the basic issues of sin and grace are openly displayed in the worshiping life of a community. And unless that community explicitly attends to the need to be formed–better yet, transformed–for our lives as citizens, little good can be expected of Christians vis-a-vis the crucial issues of public life.”
Richard J. Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press/Baker Publishing Group, 2016, page 88.
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