However, God promises to be Cain s protector. God has a plan for reversal of the situation. The answer to the curse of Cain is in a new community of faith - the church, the body of Christ. Dr. Moore identified three necessary elements for the community of faith to be the family of God as God intended. Accepting responsibility for ones own actions and responsibility for one another.
Accountability includes a willingness to confront.
Balance between autonomy and enmeshment in the group. Between a loss of identity and selfish individualism, recognizing that we need one another, cannot exploit one another, must learn to live with the idiosyncrasies of one another. We are agents of reconciliation with God, called to evangelism and healing, seeking to reverse the fragmentation of the world. The Rev. Fleming Rutledge provided a stirring conclusion to the conference, speaking about The Sharing of Faith, and doing what she does so well, offering an example of impassioned proclamation of Jesus Christ. Concerned about the timidity of our proclamation of Jesus Christ, she noted the difficulty of proclaiming Christ crucified in the church in an age when the church is becoming more and more indiscriminate, substituting vague religiosity and spirituality for the true substance of the faith.