“The church is the place where the messianic renewal of the world, which God began irreversibly in Jesus, must go forward. That is the essence of the church. That is its calling. We could also say that that is its fortune and its burden. This is not at all to say that God acts only in the church. God is at work always and everywhere in the world. But this universal activity of God in all the world can be unmistakably recognized only where it is interpreted, and thereby comprehended, as the work of God. And it can only be comprehended where it is apprehended in faith and discipleship. Wherever that happens, there is church.”
(Lohfink, G. The Work of God Goes On.
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