At Theosis Project, when we say Church, we don’t mean a building, a denomination, or a cultural ritual. We mean the Body of Christ—all creation being gathered up in Christ, reconciled in love, and made new. We stand in the ancient Nicene faith, rooted in the Trinity, yet we live out our belonging through rhythms rather than rigid traditions.
The Church
Seeing the Church Eschatologically
Fr. John Behr, offers a perspective that has deeply shaped us:
“The Church is not a select group called out from unbelievers.
Rather, the Church is the whole of creation seen eschatologically—
from which we already see islands of new life in the present.”
This means the Church is not merely “us vs. them,” but the end-goal of creation itself: all things reconciled in Christ (Col. 1:20), God “all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28).
Islands of Light, Signs of Spring
Even now, we begin to glimpse this future breaking into the present. The Church, seen from the End, is not just a promise far away—it is already unfolding in the world around us. Wherever people live in the way of self-giving love, wherever lives are being reoriented toward the true Light of Christ, the first signs of renewal begin to appear.
These moments are like islands of light scattered across the sea of the world—communities and friendships where divine life takes root, and love becomes visible. They are signs of spring after a long winter: quiet but unmistakable evidences that the old world is passing away and something new is being born.
In this way, the Church is not defined by its institutions or offices, but by the new life in Christ already appearing among us—in every act of mercy, in every reconciliation, in every awakening to the beauty of God’s love.
