Our trust in this source outruns our knowledge. This reality is to be worshipped for its own sake, because it is worthy of our trust. In this relationship of trust and worship, the church is a reminder that we live in terms of a covenant and not in terms of a contract. Church is a living testimony that we live in the context of a mystery that far transcends our reason. We are born in mystery, we sense the impenetrable depth of mystery and we die in one way of reducing the meaning of life for us.
Church is for seeking as well as speaking the truth in love.
Church is for the increase of stature, the enlargement of spirit, and the greater freedom of the self. Church is for encouraging us to actualize our most creative possibilities. It is also the critic of our limitations and our pretensions. Church is for understanding and for being understood. Church is for confession, for repentance and for the compassion of forgiveness.