God's Living and Local Presence

I'm convinced that the church exists and is called to be God's living and local presence. Read this today from an excerpt from this book and couldn't resist posting it.

From its first moments, the church has held the promise of being an expression of God’s presence on this earth. No other entity has greater potential to bring about real and sustainable change for good, whether we’re talking about individual lives or the world at large.

Dave Gibbons