Jesus must be my saviour, delight, strength, propitiation, joy, hope, treasure, light, redeemer, guide, among many other things. If Jesus is not these things to me, then my life will display a perversion of Christianity. The Christian life is necessarily and radically Christ-centered.
Every church must avoid the danger of putting eccesiastical practices and forms at the center of the Christian life, with Christ at the side, merely providing the impetus and direction for the practice of church life. I delight in sound, biblical teaching and preaching. But, I must never delight in preaching about Christ more than in Christ himself. Does fellowship with the saints bring joy? Of course! Yet, beware if the joy of fellowship eclipses your joy in your saviour.
The church must never be church-centered. If she is to be the radiant bride Christ intends, she must be obsessively groom-centered.
