All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.
Ephesian 1: 20-23 (The Message)
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The world is peripheral to the church? Seems contradictory to what we might observe. Perhaps it is by allowing him to fill us with his presence so that we are "living our lives the way Jesus would live it if he were I" (Divine Conspiracy, p. 283) that this happens.
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