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The church is an objective community, marked off by baptism and visible to the world by her worship and life. The church is not a lifestyle enclave or a close-knit cell group of like-minded people, but a redeemed community with a priestly service to the world. The Great Commission of our Lord reminds us that the church does not exist for the sake of her own members, but for the sake of the world. In imitating our Lord, we embrace the world without becoming identified with it, and we die to the world without removing ourselves from it.
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Romans 12:3-6
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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