Publisher's Synopsis
In this day when Christians and churches are widely dispersed all over the world, the question 'Who is the church?' could easily be dismissed as redundant. In this book, Bishop Niringiye pleads that as Jesus warned, we too should not be in haste to conclude that any community with religious titles or forms or the right language is authentic church. The key features that mark a community as the people of God are faith, love and hope. These three are definitive as they are descriptive of the identity and missional life of authentic community in Christ, the new pilgrim people of God, looking forward to the full consummation of the kingdom of God - of justice, peace and joy - when it will be fully realized in 'the new heaven and the new earth'.
