Now, as then, the church needs disciples who trust in and confess that Jesus is Lord and try to live accordingly, who orient their lives around the worship of the Triune God and understand the Christian story as their story, who view themselves as new creatures in Christ and as members of a global community of faith, and who strive to imitate Jesus in all areas of life, serve the “least of these,” and steward their resources as if everything they have belongs to God, which of course it does.
