Detterick, an elder in the Wayne Presbyterian Church in Wayne, Pa., will begin his duties August 12. Those are the real key elements to what I hope we can focus on. It's people that we need to focus on serving, people coming together in their congregations and coming together in presbyteries. It's people doing, serving, working together in teams.
People have relationships with each other.
When we have relationships, we know each other. We know each other for our beauties and our flaws and love each other in Christ for that and in spite of our differences. Out of being people and being in relationship and understanding each other comes trust, trust in each other. And if we can begin to build those relationships, if we can focus on people, trust will come. When trust comes, we really will come together as a community of the church, a rich and diverse church with great diversity, diversity of people and diversity of theology, but coming together.