"The concept of the Church as the body of
Christ...is a tremendous idea. Nothing, surely, is more stimulating to our
faith, nothing more encouraging, nothing more stimulating to our practical
holiness, than the realization of this wonderful and exalted truth about
ourselves. I say once more that I am increasingly convinced that what chiefly
accounts for the low state of spirituality in the Christian Church is the
failure to grasp (this) doctrine. We think so much in subjective terms, and we
spend so much time in trying to work something up, that we fail to see that the
way to become holy is to understand the truth about ourselves and to realize
our high calling and our privileged position." -Martyn Lloyd-Jones
