And with passion I believe that many of us have been called to this place to help it live as a channel of the truth. And with passion, and having felt that openness ourselves, we live and pray and work to open the community, to make its access free and unconditional to others. God has planted a kind of genetic yearning in every human soul for God. Sometimes that yearning draws us through Christ into holy community. We don't join such community as if joining a club.
People try that, and they are invariably disappointed.
Sometimes people are here for many years before they truly join, that is, join with the heart. We are drawn to God through Christ because we are in a community which, in an entirely human standard, has set up a new way of thinking about humanity. If you really want to work your way to an understanding of the truth of God, you have to begin with a new and clear understanding of human life. Paul somehow got that on the Damascus road. It might happen to you anywhere, anytime.