Obviously, there's a time to talk about forgiveness, as well. What I'm saying, in fact, is that it's our commitment to those things, to living out the Gospel truth, that can lead us to a place where the log in Brother David's eye just doesn't matter as much. But it's not our focus, because we are not our focus. God is our focus. The work of Jesus is our focus.
Worship is our focus.
Justice is our focus. Interestingly, God doesn't require that we like each other in order to be a community of faith. God requires faith, and community grows as an expression of it. I have been thinking all week about about what Barb Napier said in meeting for business last Sunday. She expressed her thanks for the renewed commitment to itself that this meeting has shown in the past months, and the way in which people have worked together and pulled together, and the good spirit in which that's been done.