The Unwalled City: Restoring Christ's Design for His Singular Assembly

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Are you certain that the Lord's church, as revealed in the New Testament, is truly enough?
For those of us committed to the restoration plea, that question is the ultimate test of our allegiance. In his profoundly insightful and prayerful study, The Unwalled City: Restoring Christ’s Design for His Singular Assembly, Theodore Jao Quist lays bare the critical tension facing the churches of Christ today: the increasing, yet subtle, compromise of divine simplicity by human-devised complexity.
This book is not an attack on sincere believers, but a heartfelt plea for the Pattern. It calls us to soberly reflect on whether we have unwittingly replaced the glorious yoke of Christ with the anxious management of man-made institutions.
A Call Back to Divine Sufficiency
The Unwalled City is your guide back to the liberating truth of Christ's absolute Headship, where "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth" (Matthew 28:18, NKJV). It challenges the common practices that have created competing structures and fractured loyalties within the Body, arguing that the New Testament alone is the sufficient constitution for the Assembly.
Inside, you will find suggestions for restoration, systematically examining how the proliferation of:
  • Parallel Fellowships: Groups like women's or youth associations with independent treasuries, constitutions, and compulsory dues, compromise the eldership's singular oversight and the church's unified financial accountability.
  • Sectarianism: The danger of elevating loyalty to "the club" over devotion to the simple, singular Assembly of Christ, which the Apostle Paul so strongly condemned in Corinth (1 Corinthians 1:12-13).
  • Institutionalism: How neglect in areas like benevolence or youth work creates a vacuum, leading us to invent external structures instead of reviving the local church to fulfil its comprehensive, divine duties.
Ultimately, this study leads us to reclaim the blueprint for disciple multiplication: the New Testament model of making disciples who make disciples, leading to the planting of new, autonomous and interdependent congregations. This approach, exemplified by the Four Fields Blueprint, proves that Christ's Church is the complete, self-sufficient, and all-equipped institution on earth, needing no external scaffolding.
If you cherish the glorious liberty and utter sufficiency of the New Testament pattern, you must read this book. It is a journey that requires courage and conviction, but it is the only way to restore the simple, unified, and powerful Body that Christ designed. Let us dismantle the complexity and return, with love, to the pure pattern of The Unwalled City.

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