I am reading Robert Webber's book, Ancient-Future Faith. In the book he talks about visiting a church community where the congregation, only seven years old, had grown from a nucleus of thirty-five people to more than seven hundred. He asked why the church had grown so much in such a short period of time. This is the answer he received.

I think it's all very simple. we love each other so much that we simply talk about how wonderful it is to be part of this community.

Are our churches like that - so characterised with joy and love, that they become attractive. We all know that the church is called the body of Christ, but what would it mean in reality if the church was fully the body of Christ?