In the World, but not of It

"Most Christians live in the world and go to church. God’s intention is that we live in the church and go to the world. . . . "

"The church must be a counterculture where Christians live together and share their lives together, where biblical values are not only taught but are lived out as a way of life. . . . We are a counterculture. Our values are not the values of the culture around us. We do not embrace independence, but mutual submission and interdependence. We do not embrace privacy, but shared life, family, community. We do not embrace materialism, but Jesus Christ as owner and master over all we have and are."

Clay Ford, Our Destiny is Fellowship in Love, 1977