"...neither is the Church a voluntary association for the cultivation of impressions, experiences, and impulses which men may have received from divine revelation and by reason of which they have formed definite convictions, condensed them into definite resolutions, rules, and customs of life and made them the center of their piety and morals.
"The Church is not the result of human election, decision, and disposition toward divine revelation. It arises from the election, decision, and disposition of God toward man. In revelation they have become an event. There God meets men and communicates Himself to men. Men are not gathered into, nor preserved as, the Church by an agreement in sentiments, convictions, and resolutions.
"Rather, it is the one God, one Christ, one Spirit, one baptism, one faith. The Church is not a religious society."
Karl Barth
God in Action: Theological Addresses
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