Lesslie Newbigin describes the church as a pilgrim community on mission to the ends of the earth.
The Church is the pilgrim people of God. It is on the move — hastening to the ends of the earth to beseech all men to be reconciled to God, and hastening to the end of time to meet its Lord who will gather all into one.
— Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God: Lectures on the Nature of the Church, Kerr Lectures (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2008), 25.
Ryan is a nobody who belongs — body and soul, in life and in death — to his faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He served as a lead pastor at a church in Southern California for 8+ years. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for a decade. Today, he lives with his family in Escondido, California.
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