I believe, for example, that we will make the financial goal for stewardship and pledging this year. There aren't a lot of other believers out there right now, but I take some comfort from the fact that they weren't there in the previous years, and we did it anyway. But mostly, I confess to you, I need to believe and want to believe that. And I believe that, in spite of a rocky start, the Mets are going to win it all. They are handed down in sacred story telling, written down in holy scripture, and, though not provable, these truths can be examined.
Easter is pervasive in our way of seeing.
But it is not logical or provable. The key is in what Jesus did and said when Thomas was absent. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. He gives them an assignment, a test. That's a test.