"The church, for the most part, still acts like the slave son of Hagar, serving God under the task master of the law with no true understanding of its sonship or inheritance as the seed of promise. The revolutionary change that is coming to the church government is that we will possess that Spirit by which we call out 'Abba, Father!' The church will not be an institution of leaders and laypeople, as much as it will be a family of sons and daughters and mothers. Regulations will be washed away by heartfelt relationship. Law-focus will be replaced by faith-focus, and Jacob's striving will be replaced by Israel's ruling and reigning."
John Crowder, The New Mystics
