Our Pockmarked History

“When God’s people as church tell what happened before its current riven unity, remembering its Pentecostal institution, the course of faithful witness, heresies, recurrent hypocrisy, martyrdoms, crusades and reformations, enduring diaconal ministries, a holy remnant, it boggles one’s consciousness. The pockmarked history of the communion of saints past, present, and forthcoming will be redemptive if its story invigorates one’s gratefulness to be still wrestling at Jabbok. Church history is not a tale of woe or of victory, but is a story that prompts a community of persevering sinful saints to live in patient, certain expectation of the risen Christ’s return to bring a final shalom.”

– Calvin Seerveld, “Remembrance That Limps”