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In The Community of the Word editors Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church’s moral character and missional witness.

When evangelical piety replaces the Word of God, mediated through preaching and sacraments, as what makes the church the church, then we have a serious problem. I grant that it is in some ways preferable that this piety should take the Christ-centered, evangelical form, as opposed to a generic human experience of the divine, which is often viewed by liberal Protestantism as the essence of faith. But no personal or generic human experience of Jesus Christ can ever adequately replace the living Lord
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