There is the shortest path between the two, and there they are glimpsed, hurrying from study to pulpit, or dashing back to their books subsequently. Inaccessible preachers are so self-important that ordinary folk would not presume on taking up their precious time in going to them with their problems. There is politics, but there is a world outside it, and outside economist's world too. Life is not all about sport, or the antics of the beautiful people. There is a world outside Wales, and the Netherlands and Canada.
Balance presents the big world.
Balance in the church is found in concern for the whole congregation, the stranger who attends, the child, the old saint, the backslider, the bereaved, the joyful and those who lack assurance. It is found in the themes of the sermons, and the passages expounded - OT and NT, gospels and letters, Moses and the prophets, grace and commandments, teaching and evangelism, history and experience, the mind and the affections. Beauty is generally manifest in a the proportions and relations of the parts. So it is in the church. Anyone who has had any dealings with events that have subsequently been reported in the media know how much bias is found in the presentation.