We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way.

God wants his

people to become like Christ, for Christlikeness is the will of God for the people of God. I propose first, to lay down the biblical

It is a great relief to turn away from an unhealthy preoccupation with oneself to the healthy commandments of God (united and reinforced by Jesus), to love God with our whole being and to love our neighbour as ourself. For God intends his church to be a community of love, a worshipping and serving community.

rejecting what it dislikes? Or is Jesus Christ our Teacher and our Lord, so that we believe and obey

So the fundamental question before the church is who is Lord? Is the church the lord of Jesus Christ, so that it has liberty to edit and manipulate, accepting what it likes and

In other words, life on earth is a brief pilgrimage between two moments of nakedness.