The importance of the feast of the Transfiguration is that it prepared Jesus for the journey ahead - it reassured him before he went to do the work of God in Jerusalem. So we too here in Church are reassured that we are also God's children as we go out into the community that God has put about us, into the family God has blessed us with, to be supportive and encouraging. Of course none of us are here alone, worshipping God. There is a community here in which we are bidden to be supportive and encouraging. We and all people are that precious to God.
Religionists walk around in it so they can get spiritually high.
Safe, non-controversial and quiet are values popular now in the church. In the General Theological Seminary Bookstore from 1953-1956 there was a tiny half shelf of books on spirituality. Now that section takes up six six-foot cases of bookshelves. He means that the emphasis prevalent in the church today on prayer, Bible study and developing one's spiritual life unhooks the Christian from the moral and action-oriented demands of the faith. Before praying one experiences an existential shock.