We should spend less time in committee rooms and more in the sanctuary, less energy talking to people about God and more energy talking to God about people. We should realize that what matters in God's great scheme of unity is not so much what we can do for God but what God can do in and through us insofar as we yield ourselves to him in faith and prayer. Therefore we should pray to God without ceasing that our inward eyes may be illumined, so that we may know what is the hope to which he calls us, what is the wealth and glory of the share which he offers us among his people in their heritage, and how vast are the resources of his power open to us who trust in him'. The church as the fullness of Christ is an evocative idea. In a sense, yes.
Creation is a mystery.
And the church stands at the other end of God's predestinating will. He had us in mind from the first'. The church is quite literally hands to do Christ's work, feet to run his errands, a voice to speak his words'.