III And Truth. My soul, we are all aware of this terrible Balkan war. There is a lot at stake in it. But decisive components of the war can be found in the tremendous machinery given to explaining, interpreting, rationalizing, persuading, reporting, propagandizing, politicking, arguing and debating it. What is at stake here is Truth.
Truth is at stake.
And as the clich would have it, the first casualty of any war is Truth. . . . Well in Christ Jesus we confront Truth. We encounter congruence of word and deed, promise and actuality. In Jesus Christ we confront one who is what he says, is what he does, is where he comes from, is where he is going. In Jesus Christ, in a church permeated by Christ, we discover ultimate integrity, the integrity of promise made and fulfilled.