He limped out of the office that day with one secretary, two goldfish and a dream. Fred Buechner calls this story of Jacob the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God. So we must wrestle if we are to change. Our preference of course is not to wrestle - our preference is for things to remain the same. Because wrestling is hard work . . .
Christian faith is dynamic because it is an invitation to join in the ministry of reconciliation.
We are 'on the road people'. . . That old time religion might have been good enough for back then but it will not serve us well today. We in the Presbyterian Church claim to be a reformed and reforming Church. Whenever a minister or elder is ordained into our church we are reminded in the preamble that the church s continuing function is the reformulating of the faith. That means that we have not arrived yet and that their is plenty of wrestling yet to be done.