From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God

by Frank Viola

The centrality of anything other than Christ is a betrayal of the new species.

If you and I wish to know Christ, hear Christ, touch Christ, see Christ, enjoy Christ, and experience Christ in fullness, we will find Him in a living, breathing expression of His body. For the church, as God has called it to be, is the visible image of the invisible Christ. The church is the presence of Christ today just as Christ is the presence of God.

My journey didn’t end there, however. Around the same time, I made another life-altering discovery. It was this: that Jesus Christ is the embodiment of all divine things. My eyes were opened to see that Jesus Christ is salvation. Jesus Christ is the power of God. Jesus Christ is holiness. Jesus Christ is doctrine. Jesus Christ is the living incarnation of everything that is spiritual.

To put it candidly, you will never have an authentic experience of the body of Christ unless your foundation is blindly and singularly Jesus Christ.