“When we are part of a group in which there is an active effort to diffuse a sense of grace, we are less likely simply to go through the motions of being Christians… A community of grace is not a utopia. A utopia exists when a group of people has no shortcomings. A community of grace, however, contains people who want to be known as better than everyone else in the group, who use others in the group for their own gain, and who resist God’s love while publicly declaring it. The distinctive feature of a community of grace is not perfection but the giving and receiving of grace. This feature is what moves its members toward sensing eternity with less ambivalence and illusion.”

— Clifford Williams, Singleness Of Heart: Restoring The Divided Soul