I would not have gone if left to my own devices. God's vision, God's mission rises out of the heart of God. God so loved the world. John does not say, the world which is like God . For the fallen world is very much unlike God.
People are hard to work with.
This is God's vision and this is our mission to proclaim and live this revelation. Now, we leave worship having tasted the vision at the table. The reality is that we may experience the same quarrels in the car on the way home, the same tensions, and the same daily grind. We have tasted God's vision. Satan continues to whisper in your hear the mantras of division and the idols of our different identities.