The Gospel of the Kingdom, etc.

…it is not our instruments and our institution which count, but ourselves, for it is ourselves who are God instruments; so far as the Church and all is members are God’s ‘means’ they ought to constitute that presence of the ‘end’ which is characteristic of the Kingdom. Thus we never have to look for an objective outside ourselves, which we try to attain by very great effort (all efforts are accomplished in Jesus Christ), but we, within ourselves, have to carry the objective for which the world has been created by God. — Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom, pg. 80