Hauerwas on the task of the church

 <“The first task of the church is not to make the world more just but to make the world the world.” (--Stanley Hauerwas) Put plainly, the church is neither chaplain nor soul of the nation-state; it is the sacrament of God’s redemption, bearing witness to the work of the God who made and still loves the world, a witness that takes the form of a certain common life.>

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