Living in Sacred Space

The mission of the Church for those who decide to follow Jesus is to tell a renewed and powerful tale that is so inclusive that it ties the past and present together into a whole so that others can see even clearer the preferred path that God desires for all as we walk into the future—this is the alternative story The mission of the Church is about building relationships with other human beings in the name of Jesus Christ, and to encourage and direct them in building a relationship with a loving and transformative God.    And there is another important part of the mission which the willingness to risk, sacrifice and to suffer on behalf of what is right and just for God’s preferred vision for humankind.   I agree with Vaclav Havel when he writes in his book, “The New Measure of Man”, “Something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born.   It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself while something else, still indistinct, were arising