Living Deeply

Why We Go To Church (Paul Evdokimov)

We go to church for love, for the new love of Christ himself, which is granted to us in our unity.  We go to church so that this divine love will again and again be “poured into our hearts,” so that again and again we may “put on love” so that, constituting the body of Christ, we can abide in Christ’s love and manifest it in the world.

The Event and Effect of Jesus (Rowan Williams)

Church is the event of Jesus' presence with its characteristic effect of gathering people around him and making them see one another differently as they see him. The church is the immediate effect of Jesus being there.