If people are looking for more ways of expressing their religious values through social justice, we can find opportunities for this to happen. However, what ever we do should spring from our mission, rather than from responses to a consumer survey. This is what makes us a church, rather than a religious shopping mall. But that is not the only thing that people are looking for from this church. Furthermore, what makes a sermon meaningful to one person may be abhorrent to another.
Sermons touch people in different ways, depending on where they are in their lives.
While I want everyone to leave feeling good about being a Unitarian Universalist, I also want to challenge you to think about how you are living your life. They are called The Seekers. Rather than looking for a religion that will merely make them feel good about themselves, they look for ways in which their religion will transform them. Reinhold Niebuhr, the famous 20th century American theologian, was famous for saying that the role of religion was to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. I view a re-covenanting process as a way of shaking us out of our complacency, and doing something with our lives.