A further thought on inner transformation.....

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"John's Gospel should be a reminder...that true change begins with faith, the kind of faith that leads to love, the kind of love that builds a community, protects that community's present, that guarantees its future even as and probably because it challenges, counters, and resists the hostilities of the world around it. This is the kind of community that witnesses to the truth that in Jesus Christ God has broken into the world... This is the kind of faith that must be sheltered and nurtured. This is the kind of faith that witnesses to the lordship of Christ in the world and all the countercultural possibilities that such a witness implies"

-Brian Blount, "Then the Whisper Put on Flesh"