Yes. Because Jesus has a future. As Ignatius of Antioch once put it, ‘where Christ is, there is the Church.’
Do you really think the church is a thing of the past? That to believe in Jesus means to believe in a man or a message of the past? No, if anything has a future in the world, it is the Church. Perhaps, it is a future that no one can foresee, a future with a completely different outlook than we have now. But a future, which only when it is past, when all is said and done, will we men in the future be able to look back and describe, because the future of the Church is the future of Christ. She travels through the angst and distress of this world, from his incarnation to his return. Yes, the future of our Lord Jesus Christ is the blessed future of the church.
from Witness (2013), 85. Originally preached 1940.
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