God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
