Perhaps the single truth of the Christian faith needing reevaluation more than any other in the 21st century is the doctrine of the church. The widespread divisions, the lack of singularity of purpose in the midst of a splintered universe of humanity, testifies strongly to the need for the church of Jesus Christ to understand itself correctly so that it may minister to a broken world from the perspective of unity of mission. The church and its theologians have regularly investigated
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