Again and again, local churches are reminded of their close relationship to one another, in life, work, worship, pain, and death. Not that such a relationship is to be regarded either as a matter of convenience or as a question of organization. On the contrary, this intimate relationship is seen as the direct outcome of the saving work of Christ. This unity with one another, and of local churches with each other, is the unity which belongs to the Body of Christ, arising from the unity of God Himself, uttered in the dying and rising again of Jesus, and now expressed in the order and structure of the Church. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace.
Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected.
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. We turn unfilled to Thee again. Thy holy light.