Ryan Hofacre

"'Dallas Willard writes, "The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.' I believe that God is gathering just such a community in our day. It is a community that combines eschatology with social action, the transcendant Lordship of Jesus with the suffering with the suffering servant messiah. It is a community of cross and crown, of conflict and reconciliation, of courageous action and suffering love. It is a community empowered to attack evil in all its forms, overcoming it with good. It is a community of unselfish love and witness without compromise. It is a community buoyed up by the vision of Christ's everlasting rule, not only imminent on the horizon but already coming to birth in our midst." Foster, Prayer