We feel united with the entire church of Christ in which no group or individual can live isolated from the rest. They are members and organs of the one living body whose spirit, head, and heart is the coming Christ. The testimony of our life, therefore, is the essence of Christ's own life. He discloses to us the mystery of life when he points to the birds in the air and to the flowers in the meadow, and when he expects good fruits only from the healthy tree. He reveals to us the heart of the Father, who sends his rain and sunshine on the good and the bad.
Life means growth and development, the unfolding of love.
We have been commissioned to serve life and build it up, no matter whether this seems evolutionary or revolutionary. The character of life rejects what is dying and awakens what is living to new life. This means development and upheaval. Organic life brings new birth. It springs from God who is at work in all living things.