# “On the receiving end” by Michael S. Horton

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2010/08/22/on-the-receiving-end-by-michael-s-horton/
- Published: 2010-08-22T15:19:01-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The church is always on the receiving end in its relationship to Christ; it is 
never the redeemer, but always the redeemed; never the head, but always the body;
never the ruler, but always the ruled.”

–Michael S. Horton, [_People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology_](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=People+and+Place%3A+A+Covenant+Ecclesiology+Michael+Horton&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Louisville, KY: Westminster, 2008), 31.

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