"Our aim as Christ’s Social Body is to “follow in his steps” (1 Pet 2:21);
to “walk in love as Christ loved” (Eph 5:1); “to speak and do the truth”
(4:15, 21; 1 John 1:6); to “grow up together” (Eph 4:15) in the One who
embodies “mature humanity” (4:13). In the drama of discipleship, the local
church “puts on” Christ’s pattern of covenantal fidelity, not with the
definitive weight of Christ’s unique fulfillment, but in his ways, after
his likeness." -Dr. Greg Perry
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