How we can use the gifts that we have and the wonderful gifts that we have to proclaim love and joy and peace. To strive for excellence, but to care for people in the process. To allow the Spirit to work us through the difficulties that we may have had. That we may go forward. That whenever two or three of us are together that the Spirit may be present.
Some people try to make churches into reform schools.
The idea has never appealed to me but I look for us to be a transforming place. That we will thank God that we are His people. As I mentioned earlier, it s very easy for us to find it difficult if we ve had a hard place in the road in the past to be forgiving. Part of that is because of our own pride. We want perfection but we never find it here on this earth.